Accidental Blogger

I was supposed to post this last Monday but with my excitement surrounding Andrew's post, I forgot all about it. It is Fiction Week at the American Scholar, featuring a different author every day of the week. Check it out here. Introduction to this week's edition by fiction editor, Sudip Bose:

The American Scholar takes its commitment to the short story online with a burst of new work by five acclaimed contemporary writers. Each day this week we will offer an online-only piece of short fiction; thereafter, we will offer a new short story each month on theamericanscholar.org. Although these are hard times for publications, we are going online with fiction not out of economic necessity, but because we see our website as an ideal extension of what we bring you in print. Publishing fiction on our website will enable us to more than double the number of short stories we offer, a thrilling prospect.

Should an online short story differ from one that appears in print? The Internet seems to encourage more experimental modes of narration, but we believe that a good story is a good story, and we won't post anything online that we wouldn't publish in the print magazine. Consider the roster of writers we have assembled this week—Maud Casey, Alix Ohlin, Bret Anthony Johnston, Antonya Nelson, and David Huddle—and you will see that we intend to bring you the best writers working today, both on the website and in the magazine itself.

So read Maud Casey's story below and look for another new story each day this week. Pass on the links to others who share your enthusiasm for good contemporary fiction. And in future weeks and months, please come back to this site often to find new stories by writers we admire.

–Sudip Bose
Fiction editor
The American Scholar