Stories in the World

Cover of I Am the Ghost Here, featuring a cracked egg with a disembodied mouth where the yolk would normally be, on a gradient teal-to-light-orange background.

I Am the Ghost Here: Kim Samek and the Ghost of Pandemic Present

Given that many of the stories in Kim Samek’s debut story collection I Am the Ghost Here feature surreal elements, borrowing tropes from science fiction and fantasy, I was surprised to find honest, genuine explorations of the pandemic as a mass disabling event in its fourth and fifth stories.

Cover of Crawl, featuring different colors of gummy bears on pink background, itself against pink-to-orange sideways gradient reminiscent of rainbow sherbet ice cream.

Stories in the World

Max Delsohn's "All Time Low" and the Straight Girl Paradox

Stories in the World is a series in which we explore a particular element of a piece of writing in a broader context. Here, Lisa looks at the phenomenon of women who become involved in relationships with queer women while self-identifying as straight, as featured in Max Delsohn's "All Time Low."