Here are three very short stories that can take your leadership from good to great. The god, Poseidon, riddled with angst, hates his job. After all, he's the God of the Sea who never spends time ...

But I’d argue all good short stories have heaps of character development. I also find they spark my imagination much more than novels do – the lives of characters are often left unanswered in ...

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4. The first line you write doesn’t have to be the first line of your story “You need a good first line in a short story but it’s always worth bearing in mind, with any writing you do ...

They also strive to be good citizens of an ailing planet and have sex with their partners more than once in a blue moon. In Comorbidities, which won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award ...