stories

Happy Valentine’s Day! If you’re single, taken, or somewhere between, I hope you have a fun weekend filled with…

On the most recent episode of Botched, an American “gambler/magician” named Brian Zembic tells the following story:

Break out your sleeping mask and Ambien prescription! For this week’s Pissing Contest, we’re talking about our…

Though it’s hard to predict which of your antics will prove to be long-lasting in memory, some stories just follow…

Welcome to Pissing Contest, a weekly story sharing circle for the the ass-draggiest time of the afternoon on the…

Welcome to Pissing Contest, a weekly story sharing circle for the the ass-draggiest time of the afternoon on the…

Welcome to Pissing Contest, a weekly story sharing circle for the the ass-draggiest time of the afternoon on the…

Teenagers come in two varieties: they are either tellers of colorful tall-tales about having, pssst, sex or doing…

Who among us hasn't experienced the trepidation of your first time? You agonize about where you should go and what…

We've read through your ghost stories and picked out ten of our favorites. Read on for tales of creepy photos, scary…

Nothing angers online fans quite like an improperly labeled spoiler, as many people think a story will be ruined if…

It is unknown whether it was Mark Twain's actual intention for little girls to read this humorous short story…

Picking the best of all the exciting entries in the Jezebel (Very) Short Fiction Contest was difficult indeed — but…

Ah summer jobs: it's the subject of dozens of teen romances and bawdy movies. Or, you know, petty humiliation.

Fairy tales have been much analyzed in the past thirty years or so, and Holly Tucker's list of five books on the…

We often get tips that begin "I was reading Cosmo/Glamour/Marie-Claire - at the dentist's" - but really, I actually…

The 1945 Roald Dahl short-story classic involving but not limited to a turtle, a yogi, and a terrible swan song.

As we gird our loins for the Post-Recession frontier, we're all taking to the canner. Luckily, some of us nerds have…

As is her wont, the Atlantic's lightning rod cultural critic Caitlin Flanagan has weighed in on womenfolk: in this…