Category: Editor’s Note

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Photo by Dan Keck Almost once a week, I head to my local post office branch to ship issues of Story to readers like you. It’s on the same lot as a grocery store, Lucky’s, so I often bop over there to get a sandwich, or olive oil, or coffee, or whatever other single items …

Photo by Xena Coleman During the publication of this issue, the world is in the middle of its worst health crisis since 1918 and its worst economic crisis since 1933. In America, protests against institutional racism and police brutality have swept across the entire country, often to be met by unaccountable state-sanctioned violence, and a …

Although the issue in your hands (this might be true, it might not; after all, you could be reading this on your phone or you could be reading it on desktop monitor, but the basic idea of intimacy still holds, I hope) is the third and final issue of 2019, the revitalization of Story began …

I am deeply saddened by the death of Lee K. Abbott, who passed away in April, at age 71. A majestic storyteller, Lee was a master of the short form, publishing seven collections of stories with a narrative voice that was joyous, soulful, and heartbreaking. I took Lee’s Advanced Fiction Writing class in 2000 during …