“Speakeasy,” previously published by a small press in Ohio, depicts a young family and a rogue expression of free speech in dystopia. Read “Speakeasy” in my forthcoming first book, Long Run: Short Stories, Volume One.
You can also read the short story (the basis for my novel, Speakeasy), published in 2024, in the anthology, Garden Variety Grimoire, available in PDF (currently $1.99) or a softcover print edition (which I’ll inscribe if you cover shipping) currently $12.99.
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Related Stories, Episodes and Links
“Egoless” by Scott Holleran
This story podcast episode features me reading “Egoless,” the tale of an unnamed boy who chooses to become an Islamic terrorist in first person. The story was published on a literary journal website in New Orleans, Louisiana weeks before the New Year’s Day Islamic terrorist attack on Bourbon Street. You can read “Egoless”
“The Patient and the Passenger” by Scott Holleran
Read this short story on Classic Chicago magazine here.
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Become a paid subscriber to listen to the whole story, “Escape from Indigena,” my strange, new short fiction dramatizing a one-way conversation between a child and an adult riding on a passenger train while witnessing a slave’s suicide attempt. The short story was published today in the summer edition of
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Listen to this episode for the author’s reading of “Sesame Flanagan,” which debuted in the April 27, 2025 edition of Classic Chicago magazine (read the story here).
“The Corn Ball” by Scott Holleran
Listen to my reading of my short story, “The Corn Ball,” which is less than a thousand words, when you become a paid subscriber.
“Allegheny Lane” by Scott Holleran
Become a paid subscriber to listen to the whole story, “Allegheny Lane,” a story about a boy and his dog walking by a mysterious house down the hill. This story is currently scheduled for publication in the debut edition of Blackbriar Literary Review.
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