Tagged: short story

208 Fiction / Arts & Culture / Back of the Book / Ben Olson / Books

January 7, 2026

Afraid to turn away

By Ben OlsonReader Staff With the publication of our fifth annual 208 Fiction winners and honorable mentions in this edition (see Pages 14-16), I thought I’d share one of my own short stories. I...

Arts & Culture / Books / Emily Articulated / Emily Erickson

January 29, 2025

Emily Articulated: Meaning-making

By Emily Erickson Reader Staff My writing has never been accused of being succinct, and I’ve been told a time or two that I can be a bit unclear. I get swept up in...

208 Fiction / Arts & Culture / Ben Olson / Books / Opinion / Random Digital Madness / Random Digital Madness / Soncirey Mitchell / Zach Hagadone

January 8, 2025

Here we present the winners of the fourth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel...

Brenden Bobby / Featured / Mad About Science

December 7, 2018

Mad About Science: ‘The Call of Cthulhu’

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn” “The Call of Cthulhu” was a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, published in February 1928. It’s about the narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston,...