Capsule Stories is proud to announce our nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net anthology. The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology… Read More »Capsule Stories Nominations for 2023 Best of the Net Anthology
By Rachel A.G. Gilman When I started reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, one of my best friends asked why I was being such a masochist.… Read More »Healing Heartbreak with Elif Batuman’s The Idiot
By Monica Anderson He wanted to watch Wonder Woman. So did I, but not badly. Not enough to carve out two and a half hours… Read More »Regaining My Own Power After Reading The Secret History of Wonder Woman
By Zoe Grace Marquedant I put my clothes, my phone, my duffle with proverbially everything I owned in the spare room. Set aside boots I… Read More »For the Birds: Listening to Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights Amid the Chickens
Kalisse L. Van Dellen writes about where she’s been and what she’s lost. She is a graduate of Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, and resides… Read More »Kalisse L. Van Dellen on Structuring Her Essay “Baking Do” Around a Chocolate Cake Recipe
By Jim Curtis “There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away,” the irredeemably landlocked Emily Dickinson once wistfully wrote. Immobilized… Read More »The Complete Sherlock Holmes as a Frigate
The Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year.… Read More »Announcing the Capsule Stories Best Small Fictions Nominations 2021
Joshua Flores manifested in Chicago with Spanish as his first language, and the struggle to learn English well led him to read. At ten years… Read More »Joshua Flores on Channeling His Mother’s Magic in an Essay About Making Tamales
The Best American Short Stories is the longest-running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. Heidi Pitlor has been the series editor of… Read More »Announcing Capsule Stories 2021 Best American Short Stories Selections
C. T. Holte grew up in Minnesota without color TV; played along creeks and in cornfields; went to lots of school; and has had gigs… Read More »C. T. Holte on Writing Poems About Blended Families and Their Unique Mix of Holiday Traditions