funny stories medium length stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri Monday, November 20, 2023 The Good Nazis by Yash Seyedbagheri <i>Yash Seyedbagheri's character dreams of the stage, but settles for selling popcorn at an outdoor production of The Sound of Music, dressed as a Nazi.</i><br><br>You sell popcorn, Skittles, and Cokes at the Stardust Valley Outdoor Theater, dressed as a Nazi. The sad truth is you couldn't make the cut as a thespian. Too much hamming, not enough pathos, the director, Fricker Gumby, says. But he admires … Read more Labels: funny stories medium length stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri 9 comments:
funny stories long stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri Monday, July 4, 2022 A Discussion of Mothers by Yash Seyedbagheri <i>Siblings Nicky and Nan Botkin get together for Mother's Day to bawl out their runaway mom; by Yash Seyedbagheri.</i> <br>I asked my older sister Nan what type of mother was the worst. The choices: A runaway mom, a dead mom, or a drunk mom. Runaway <i>and</i> drunk moms weren't an option. I was thirty-one and Nan was thirty-seven. We were at her apartment for our annual Mother's Day dissection-fest, a… Read more Labels: funny stories long stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri 3 comments:
funny stories medium length stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri Monday, December 27, 2021 The First Draft of Adulthood by Yash Seyedbagheri <i>Nicholas Botkin struggles to create meaningful fiction, with Hemingway as his muse; by Yash Seyedbagheri.</i><br><br> The first draft of anything is shit. Amend that. The first draft of anything is shit according to Hemingway, who drank, fought, wrote, then blew his brains out in Idaho. But that's an unfortunate footnote. At least the others are quantifiable achievements. <br><br>As an undergraduate, you change … Read more Labels: funny stories medium length stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri 4 comments:
medium length stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Monday, April 27, 2020 How To Be A Good Episcopalian by Yash Seyedbagheri <i>Yash Seyedbagheri's character considers joining the Episcopalian Church as a way to deal with the trauma of an absent mother.</i><br><br> Join the Episcopal church one winter day after run-ins with fundamentalists on campus. This is a particularly difficult day for you, sitting through creative writing classes (you are a graduate student), contributing nothing of value in comments or in stories, lost in … Read more Labels: medium length stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 5 comments:
futuristic stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri short stories Monday, February 3, 2020 The Story of Time by Yash Seyedbagheri <i>Yash Seyedbagheri's character spends the first 25 years of his life confined to an old passenger train, travelling back and forth through time.</i><br><br> People talk about chronology. Tell me about your life from beginning to present. The truth: I spent my life travelling through time. The first twenty-five years that is. A quarter of a century, which is something incredible and sad. Mama invented a ti… Read more Labels: futuristic stories Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri short stories 7 comments:
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri real life stories short stories Monday, December 9, 2019 Pardon My Persian by Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri <i>A young American writer feels oppressed by his father's pride in their shared Persian roots; by Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri.</i><br><br> Your father has dragged you to another Persian party, even though you know almost nothing of his culture, a culture he has attempted to impose upon you, deeming you too American because you like movies, don't adhere to his chauvinistic notions of gender roles. Because y… Read more Labels: Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri real life stories short stories 7 comments:
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri pick of the month real life stories short stories Monday, June 17, 2019 The Debauched by Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri <i>The 1905 Russian revolution has turned St Petersburg society on its head, and the aristocratic Misha Sergeyevich fears his sister is seeking solace in an unsavoury place; by Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri.</i><br><br> My eldest sister, Tatiana Sergeyevna, was disrobed and bathing Rasputin when I returned home one evening, in 1908. She ran her slender fingers over his hirsute back, bare and dirty. This all was trans… Read more Labels: Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri pick of the month real life stories short stories 3 comments:
