# short fiction (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover short fiction. Page: Feed: --- ## [Weekly Digest 049](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-049) _2026-08-14 · Vinny Reads_ 8/8/2026 - 8/14/2026 - 40th Birthday Edition ## [Weekly Digest 048](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-048) _2026-08-07 · Vinny Reads_ Month of July + early August ## [Digest of Sorts](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/digest-of-sorts) _2026-07-25 · Vinny Reads · Vinny Reads_ Checking in. ## [Last Orders at The Parting Glass](https://ajotoole.substack.com/p/last-orders-at-the-parting-glass) _2026-07-03 · A.J. O'Toole · A.J. O'Toole_ published on Literary Garage ## [Substack Summer: MIDWESTERN DEATH TRIP](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/substack-summer-midwestern-death) _2026-07-02 · Vinny Reads · Vinny Reads_ Midwestern Death Trip by Meaghan Garvey ## [The Snare | June Encounters](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/the-snare-june-encounters) _2026-06-30 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ an AI founder, a didi driver, a retired dance lady, three generations of women, a documentary filmmaker…on the soft bars of the cages we live in ## [Weekly Digest 047](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-047) _2026-06-26 · Vinny Reads_ Week of 6/20- 6/26/2026 ## [I am beyond fake.](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/i-am-beyond-fake) _2026-06-21 · Vinny Reads · Vinny Reads_ Short fiction. ## [Weekly Digest 046 - Fathers' Day Edition](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-046-fathers-day-edition) _2026-06-19 · Vinny Reads_ Week of 6/13 - 6/19/2026 ## [Weekly Digest 045](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-045) _2026-06-12 · Vinny Reads · Vinny Reads_ Week of 6/6- 6/12/2026 ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nB06AldFSogx) _2026-06-12 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [How Three Ancient Cultures Chose Their Own Fate — A Field Note from the National Museum of China](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/how-three-ancient-cultures-chose) _2026-06-11 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Jared Diamond meets 5,000 years of Chinese jade and pottery ## [Substack Summer: THE SHIELDBREAKER Book 2](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/substack-summer-the-shieldbreaker-192) _2026-06-08 · Vinny Reads · Vinny Reads_ The Shieldbreaker, Book Two: Holiest of Cities by Tom Schecter ## [Weekly Digest 044](https://vinnyreads.substack.com/p/weekly-digest-044) _2026-06-05 · Vinny Reads · Vinny Reads_ Week of 5/30- 6/5/2026 ## [Least Said](https://ajotoole.substack.com/p/least-said) _2026-06-03 · A.J. O'Toole · A.J. O'Toole_ published on New Flash Fiction Review ## [Let Beauty Flow Towards Me | May Encounters](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/let-beauty-flow-towards-me-may-encounters) _2026-05-26 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ a foreign tourist, a DINK woman, a bookstore owner, a journalist, a newly graduate…my encounters with different walks of life, in a country quietly changing ## [The Seven of Cups](https://ajotoole.substack.com/p/the-seven-of-cups) _2026-05-14 · A.J. O'Toole · A.J. O'Toole_ Published on Trash Cat Lit. ## [South Africa travel edition 🇿🇦 (1): ways of seeing in safari](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/south-africa-travel-edition-1-ways) _2026-03-05 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ On hunger, safety, and the gaze ## [The Big Man - short fiction](https://ajotoole.substack.com/p/the-big-man-short-fiction) _2025-12-14 · A.J. O'Toole · A.J. O'Toole_ Published on Literary Garage: ## [Why We Write Fiction?](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/why-we-write-fiction) _2025-11-24 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Barefoot Women ## [Thank God for the Autumn](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/thank-god-for-the-autumn) _2025-11-23 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ ready to come alive again so I quit my job (in this economy, I KNOW) ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KaL9oV8lJfof) _2025-11-23 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [a millennial’s manifesto toward criticism](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/a-millennials-manifesto-toward-criticism) _2025-10-15 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Everything below is fictional. If it reads too close to real life, well, you’re reading it too closely. ## [3 things this week | the world in folds](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/3-things-this-week-the-world-in-folds) _2025-09-25 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Arc’teryx × Cai Guoqiang Himalayan campaign, Folding Beijing, M Lin’s new book ## [Tracing old documents and memories of art behind bars](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/tracing-old-documents-and-memories) _2025-09-11 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ a miniature case study ## [3 things this week | on radical acceptance](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/3-things-this-week-on-radical-acceptance) _2025-09-03 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ reactions to the military parade & two new book recommendations ## [4 Murmurs this week: The Paradox of Connection](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/4-murmurs-this-week-the-paradox-of) _2025-08-14 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ hoarding Labubu, hiding from ChatGPT, Ocean Vuong and a few other hopeful chroniclers ## [5 Murmurs This Week | Who Can Be Enlightened?](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/5-murmurs-this-week-who-can-be-enlightened) _2025-08-01 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Shaolin’s fallen monk, vertical drama obsession and learning behind bars ## [5 Things This Week | Who Gets to Be Punished](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/5-things-this-week-who-gets-to-be) _2025-07-22 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ A crossdresser’s arrest, a college girl’s expulsion, and why it all connects ## [On the Importance of Being Pure](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/on-the-importance-of-being-pure) _2025-06-30 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ I will always maintain that there is a significant difference between being an artist and being a business person. ## [one night in Beijing (a short fiction)](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/one-night-in-beijing-a-short-fiction) _2025-06-17 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Rinse and repeat. Until the next weekend. ## [The Feminine Art of Revenge Book Trailer is here](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-feminine-art-of-revenge-book) _2025-06-09 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ Hope you love it as much as I do ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0UFcUhFnmOdw) _2025-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [The Cannes Diaries: glamorous great pretenders descend on the Cote d’Azur to sprinkle empty promises like fairy dust](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-cannes-diaries-glamorous-great) _2025-05-28 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ This May I attended my first Cannes Film Festival with the vague objectives of finding investment for the short film I’ve written and stirring up potential collaborators for my other projects. ## [An extract reading from The Feminine Art of Revenge](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/an-extract-reading-from-the-feminine) _2025-05-23 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ Available to request now on NetGalley ## [Cannes 2025: The Glamour of Becoming](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/cannes-2025-the-glamour-of-becoming) _2025-05-20 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ A visual poem about the undiscovered starlets who flock to Cannes to bask in the unrepeatable glamour of becoming. ## [Zou Yaqi: Performing the internet, One Viral Project at a Time](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/zou-yaqi-performing-the-internet) _2025-04-30 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Art, Algorithms, and Intimacy in a Generation That Grew Up Online ## [Announcing my second novel: The Feminine Art of Revenge + how to win a special edition Advanced Reader Copy](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/announcing-my-second-novel-the-feminine) _2025-04-25 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ Female rage is unbound in this dark & glamorous tale about a self-created femme fatale ## [TEDx TALK (VIDEO)](https://krismole.substack.com/p/tedx-talk-video) _2025-04-12 · Kris Mole · Fiction Deficit Disorder_ MIND THE GAP [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/161183012/0ca45aaece54783681b715c4e7b124ed.mp3) ## [woman jabbing another woman](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/woman-jabbing-another-woman) _2025-04-02 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Between a mother and a daughter, between doctors and strangers—what does it mean to be a woman under examination? ## [The Moon & Me](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-moon-and-me) _2025-03-27 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ Godmother, muse, constant friend. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been infatuated with the moon. She’s been a silent witness to my life, we’ve had conversations together. I like the way she listens quietly, glowing with ancient wisdom. I find her presence comforting. And the moon is definitely a ‘her’. I knew she was a she before I ever got into astrology. Although my ## [what we give in the dark (a short fiction)](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/what-we-give-in-the-dark-a-short) _2025-03-13 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ the quiet negotiations beneath the sheets ## [when the internet talks back (a short fiction)](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/when-the-internet-talks-back-a-short) _2025-03-05 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Five minutes of micro-fame. One small post. A wave of strangers deciding what she meant, what she should have said, and whether she was ever qualified to speak in the first place. ## [changing perspectives at the suzhou garden](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/changing-perspectives-at-the-suzhou) _2025-02-19 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ The yin and yang balance ## [Short Fiction: Indian Creek Drive](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/short-fiction-indian-creek-drive) _2025-02-11 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ He put his fingers on my heart, the middle finger and the index finger. Right on my heart. I’d never been touched by a guy before, least of all there. ## [The Edge of Seventeen](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/the-edge-of-seventeen) _2025-02-08 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ The night I turned into a star ## [the uncomfortable zone of a journalist](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/the-uncomfortable-zone-of-a-journalist) _2025-02-05 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ dismantling the safe distance in interviews ## ['I was within and without'](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/i-was-within-and-without) _2025-02-03 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ The writer's need for immersion, isolation and an anthropologist's mentality ## [IF YOU HAVE A GOOD HEART](https://krismole.substack.com/p/max) _2025-02-02 · Kris Mole · Fiction Deficit Disorder_ Poland, 2007 ## [WHY I LOVE THE CHINESE](https://krismole.substack.com/p/why-i-love-the-chinese) _2025-01-30 · Kris Mole · Fiction Deficit Disorder_ France, 2008 ## [look out for the monster Nian](https://3rdculturalkids.substack.com/p/look-out-for-the-monster-nian) _2025-01-30 · Rachel · 3rd Culture Kids_ Family, fear and passage of time during Chinese New Year ## [Bittersweet Sixteen](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/bittersweet-sixteen) _2025-01-29 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ Reminiscing on the bliss and terror of being a sixteen-year-old girl. Being sixteen was a state of mind. To me - at that time and even now in retrospect - a state of perfection. We were sixteen and it felt like we were stars burning at our brightest. Every year after sixteen we were doomed to dwindle towards extinction. ## [I'm really a mermaid](https://celinesaintclare.substack.com/p/im-really-a-mermaid) _2025-01-27 · Celine Saintclare · The Mermaid's Boudoir_ 'Venus sparkled at us from a peach-coloured sky like a lone diamond'