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Fictionable

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The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world. Find us at https://fictionable.world

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Here's #Autumn with Mark Haddon, tony lashden translated by Maddy Robinson, Rolli, Laura O'Meara and James Young. Plus Cherise Saywell picks her top five #ShortStories All at fictionable.world #books #reading #fiction #comics #translation #blog #podcast #books

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And here they are, the fantastic authors for #Autumn2026 Mark Haddon, tony lashden translated and read by Maddy Robinson, Rolli, Laura O'Meara and James Young. Catch them all at fictionable.world #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

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And this #MysteryAuthor is showing a fine sense of perspective. But who is it? #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

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That's what a #MysteryAuthor needs: a #cat This cat looks very friendly. But who could the writer be? #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

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Here's the next #MysteryAuthor – or their mysterious writing desk, at least. Not that there's even a desk here. Very much a minimalist vibe. Computer, coffee, cushions… What else does a writer need? #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

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So… some #MysteryAuthors A tidy start from this writer, with the classic computer, light and notebook combo. But that plant is clearly glowing with health. And even the notes in the notebook are neat. Impressive stuff. #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast

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Robin Munby
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Perhaps my biggest takeaway from this was the realisation, very late in the day, that I had no idea what you were meant to do with the M─── when reading out loud...

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A trip up north turns into an exchange in @robmunb.bsky.social's story Of All Who Sorrow, Joy, but what does it mean? www.fictionable.world/stories/of-a... #books #reading #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

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Big congratulations to M John Harrison, on this year's #BookerPrize longlist with The End of Everything: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... Catch his short story I Can't Tell at www.fictionable.world/stories/i-ca... #books #reading #writing #ShortStories

thebookerprizes.comEverything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2026 longlist | The Booker PrizesFrom humour to history to heartbreak, and from satire to sci-fi to surreality, here’s the lowdown on this year’s ‘Booker Dozen’

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Jonathan Gibbs
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And off it goes, Richard Lea’s Personal Anthology, fifty and alone, rambling about a country nearly uninhabited, wearing a frock-coat and shabby canvas trousers, sweating under the electric-yellow dome of the municipal force field, shooting a straight piss into the base of the guava tree…

open.substack.comA Personal Anthology, by Richard Lea‘He Who Saw the Deep’ by Sîn-liqe-unninni, translated by Andrew George (First written down in about 1200BCE, published in The Epic of Gilgamesh in this translation, Allen Lane 1999)

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Jonathan Gibbs
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We'll have another Personal Anthology this Friday. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Richard Lea, editor of @fictionable.bsky.social. Sign up here if you don't already subscribe. RT if you do! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

apersonalanthology.substack.comAbout - A Personal AnthologyA weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
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… perhaps worth saying that this #podcast is also available from #ApplePodcasts #Spotify and so on… #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog