CHRISTOPHER SLATSKY IS THE AUTHOR of two collections of horror fiction. His second, The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature, from 2020, includes not just short fiction, but essays on horror, poetry, and ...
You don't need a write a long novel to create a story that will stick with you for years. Or at least that's the case with Ursula Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." In a only ...
The Festival of Summer descends upon the city of Omelas. The procession is filled with joyous music. Children are laughing. The horses are free and roaming. The city of Omelas is happy, but it is not ...
Commentary: The popular science fiction and fantasy author leaves behind thought-provoking works that will be read for years to come. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...
With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets ...
I walk the streets of Eureka every day. Sometimes I walk down to the million-dollar wharf and watch the seals, averting my eyes from the homeless who gather there. Then I might walk past the corner of ...