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The Standard

The Measure of Fine Fiction

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Issues

Every issue of The Standard, with its full table of contents. Each piece has its own page.

  • Cover of The Standard, Volume I, Number III: The Deliberate Issue

    Vol. I · No. III · September 15, 2026

    The Deliberate Issue

    Seven public-domain masterworks and two essays on deliberate practice: what you actually do, and how you summon the strength to keep labouring, when the plans are wreckage and the water is turning in a great circle. Deliberately, and for the first time, no original student fiction.

    10 pieces · 112 pages · Autumn Issue

  • Cover of The Standard, Volume I, Number II: The Vortex Edition

    Vol. I · No. II · June 16, 2026

    The Vortex Edition

    Five masterworks and two essays on the force that will not be reasoned with. Poe's fisherman is pulled into a whirlpool that has already taken his brother and his boat, and his terror does not deepen: it converts, into curiosity, into attention. Every figure in these pages is inside a vortex of their own.

    7 pieces · 110 pages · Spring/Summer Issue

  • Cover of The Standard, Volume I, Number I: The Founders Edition

    Vol. I · No. I · March 17, 2026

    The Founders Edition

    Five scenes. Two short stories. Two masterworks. One mission. The first issue of The Standard is a self-contained proof of what principled editorial practice produces: work refined inside a community, not commissioned from outside it.

    10 pieces · 108 pages · Spring Issue