Week three of Short Story Month 2025

Literary Hub, upon learning that May is Short Story Month, decided to mark the occasion by sharing a tale each weekday.

Here are the free-to-read-online short stories from the third week of the month.

• “A City of Churches” by Donald Barthelme

• “We Never Went Away, We Just Hid Better” by Sam Rebelein

• “My Sad Dead,” written by Mariana Enriquez and translated by Megan McDowell

• “Nightfall” by Isaac Asimov

• “To Everything There Is a Season” by Alistair MacLeod