Steven R. Kraaijeveld

I'll take a poorly-phrased, awkward, rambling human sentence over a polished, soulless, machine sentence always and forever.

Thank you!

Notes and Errata Find our Quarterly features, along with other releases, here. Quarterly XIII–Fall 2025 On Vocations and Timing Only A Shopping List, Steven R. Kraaijeveld The Thing Is Never The Thing, Steven…

I have two new stories out in L'Esprit Literary Review (@lespritlit.bsky.social)! "Only A Shopping list" takes the form of a shopping list, while "The Thing Is Never The Thing" engages with Wallace Stevens's poem "The Pure Good of Theory." Read here: lespritliteraryreview.org/notes-and-er...

It's a beautiful issue, so do make sure to pick up your own copy. :)

So excited to receive my contributor copies of the Fall 2025 issue of the Massachusetts Review (@themassreview.bsky.social)! It includes my story "Anna Kavan's Cats"—a love letter to British novelist Anna Kavan (and cats) and a parody of academic scholarship.

Also: congrats and good luck to all the nominees! You can read my story here: anmly.org/ap41/steven-...

Honored that my story "Birdsong" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026! Many thanks to editor Sarah Clark and everyone at ANMLY. 💜

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Thank you!

And do read the rest of this beautiful issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social, which you can find here: anmly.org/ap41/

Thrilled to have my (very short) story "Birdsong" included in Issue #41 of ANMLY! You can read it here: anmly.org/ap41/steven-...

The Violinist By Steven R. Kraaijeveld In the city’s busiest square, street artists compete for the pockets of passersby. Day in, day out, the artists go about their business, working hard to amuse ephemer…

My story "The Violinist" is out now in Issue 33 of MoonPark Review (@moonparkreview.bsky.social). You can read the story—and see the brilliant artwork by Lesley C. Weston—here:

The Coots by Steven R. Kraaijeveld — Epiphany Magazine But something is wrong with these coots. Why are they moving so strangely?

My flash story "The Coots" is out now in Epiphany (@epiphanylit.bsky.social)! This piece means a lot to me and I'm happy that it found a home in such a beautiful place. You can read it here:

"He thought: Words, words.
No more words now.
Here is my thirsting hand."

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a semblance of order

My Kawabata collection. ✨

next up

another one

Bookshop Find merchandise for Indirect Books and L’Esprit Literary Review–collectively, 1882 Literary–here, along with back issues of L’Esprit and forthcoming titles from Indirect. 1…

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made a friend

"The city taught me fear, an infinity of fear.
A crowd, a street, sometimes a thought I saw
on somebody's face, have made me shake with terror.
My eyes still feel the hard, cruel light cast
by the endless streetlights on the tramping feet below."

I discovered a Kawabata that I hadn't yet read.

"Compelled to speak unceasingly, they all replace ideas with words, feelings with phrases, and their soul becomes their larynx."
—Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Thanks so much for including my story!

The Future of Grief She was ripped from the world in a single night. One miscalculation caused the vehicle to swerve wildly through the rain-drenched darkness. It could have happened to anyone, but it happened to her. Th...

THE FUTURE OF GRIEF by Steven R. Kraaijeveld

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"And if the memories that they had sculpted while breathing in this life together should gradually fade away, become transmuted into new memories forged through a projector, should anyone mourn that loss?"

The Future of Grief She was ripped from the world in a single night. One miscalculation caused the vehicle to swerve wildly through the rain-drenched darkness. It could have happened to anyone, but it happened to her. Th...

My short story "The Future of Grief" is out now in Maudlin House (@maudlinhouse.bsky.social).

I suppose that you could call it a cautionary tale about using technology to cope with grief.

Epistemic Injustice in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice I just put down Pride and Prejudice, which means that I've finally completed my reading of Jane Austen's novels...

New Substack post on Jane Austen and epistemic injustice.

next up, new publication of #Balzac by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social (Tai Tai is not impressed)