Midway Journal News Today

May is short story month! Celebrate by reading a great Canadian short story. This list was originally curated by writer Kevin Hardcastle in 2020, and has been updated for 2024!

Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The winner will be announced on April 25, 2024.

The interactive Globe Opinion comic explores how medical mistakes can happen in the chaotic environment of an ICU.

could stomp through the nyc marathon in about 40 minutes flat which makes no sense given what chases it today some say this is because the Pronghorn used to share this land with the now-extinct american cheetah for over two million years others say it’s because they’re still being chased by their ghosts — generations of the doe-eyed chewing on trauma like cud just to trick the stomach and heart to keep pumping and like that with nothing it blows past me 60-plus miles an hour the short-fa...

Become a member The Saturday Evening Post is a nonprofit organization funded primarily by our members. Your support helps us preserve a great American legacy. Discover the benefits that come with your membership.

By Jhon Sánchez In my apartment, there are two wooden boxes full of manuscripts. After reading “Rover,” by A.T. Sayre, I keep thinking about those stories, poems, and a novel that lie there. Existing. I dreamed that after my death, someone would come and find them. But more likely, they would be just paper. Hopefully, they would turn into a supermarket paper bag with a seal for recycling. I went to explore other of Sayre’s short stories, and I read “Missionaries,” available in Kindle...