The Butterfly Jungle
A badass queer British-Somali journalist navigates sex, mental health and the gig-economy
Welcome to my website, where you can explore a collection of linked short stories from various authors.
Linked short stories are a unique and engaging form of storytelling that weave together multiple narratives, characters, and themes. Each story in a linked collection stands on its own, yet when read together, they form a larger, interconnected narrative.
Whether you’re a fan of magical realism, historical fiction, or contemporary realism, we have something for everyone. My collections feature works by both established and emerging authors, providing a platform for new voices in the literary world.
This website is a pure labor of love! It aims to promote and celebrate the unique form of storytelling by sharing some of the best examples from around the world of this fascinating literary form.
Hot picks!
Night of the Living Rez
Set in a Native community in Maine, this is a collection about what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.
Consecration Pond
Eleven stories about the challenge of creating meaning in the wake of loss.
Classics
The Unvanquished
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, these are stories of the Sartoris family, and their old South codes and traditions.
Winesburg, Ohio
A cycle structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man.
Some of my personal favorites
Olive Kitteridge
A retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
A complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spoke Indian Reservation.
The Things They Carried
Stories from the Vietnam war taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles Vietnam and back home in America two decades later.
Short Story Cycles
- Doing it by the Book – paratext in British fiction
- Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place: Evolution of a Short Story Cycle
- The short story cycle: Broadening the perspective
- Story cycles and climate disaster: Finding alternative structures for literary realist narratives in the Anthropocene
- ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY OF WILLIAM FAULKNER’S STORIES
- “Queer small town people”: Fixations and fictions of fellowship in the modern short story cycle
- My review of A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout
- The Short Story Cycle in the Twenty-First Century
- A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout
- The Emergence of the Short Story Cycle in Canada Alice Munro’s Short Story Cycles as a Case Study