Contemporary – Page 6 – The Short Story Project

A curated collection of contemporary short stories from around the world. Here you'll find titles and authors reaching from post World War II to the current day, handpicked to represent a comprehensive picture of the cultural, social and political zeitgeist from all ends of the globe.

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Palestine

Naji Daher

Nightly Lament

arabic literature - death - marriage - relationships - surreal - violence

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Spain

María Fernanda Ampuero

Nam

America - coming of age - father and daughter - friendship - sexuality - trauma - war

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Argentina

Martín Felipe Castagnet

Inside Outdoors

allegory - contemplative - death - sci-fi - surreal - technology

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Uruguay

Fernanda Trías

The Return

atmospheric - family - Latin America - mystery - suspense

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Iraq

Samuel Shimon

Two Royalists in Quatorze Juillet (a chapter from “An Iraqi in Paris”)

arabic literature - colonialism - existentialism - lovers - political - sexuality

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Spain

Recaredo Veredas

My Father’s Ties

father and son - funny - irony - office life - psychological

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Iraq

Adham Adel

Extinction

allegory - arabic literature - introspective - murder - violence

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Spain

Margarita Leoz

What We’ve Become

childhood - female authors - funny - irony - revenge

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Morocco

Latifa Labsir

Ladybird

marriage - passion - relationships - women oppression

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Palestine

Ziad Khadash

Karim the Romantic, Bather of the Dead

arabic literature - death - existentialism - funny

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Argentina

Federico Falco

Ballet

alienation - Latin America - psychological - surreal - writing

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Sudan

Mansour Mohammad El Souwaim

Jabir Sabeel

absurd - arabic literature - political - surreal

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