This paper presents Alice Munro’s short stories and interview materials in order to view “short story” as a major contemporary genre, distinguished from novels as well as other kinds of fictional/nonfictional literary texts. Walter Benjamin points out that the modern world witnessed the decline of storytelling due to the rise of the novel, which leads “the incommensurable” of solitary individuals to extremes in the representation of human life. Furthermore, the rapid emergence and expansion of “information” in the hi-tech world has affected human communication, in that the information no longer demands active and voluntary participation of the receivers, but is clearly “understandable in itself.” Munro’s fragmentary, provincial, and womanly writing, if not minor and feminist, offers a possibility to restore “something unalienable,” “the securest among our possessions,” that is “the ability to exchange experiences”: storytelling. Also her stories capture and renew what Benjamin calls the Angel of History, recalling the past to dismantle the homogenous and empty time, explode out of the continuum of universal “his”tory, and finally bring about the revolutionary present, here-and-now (Jetztzeit). Therefore, in Munro’s stories the readers are invited to deconstruct the division of genre and gender, and have a vision in which memories become alive in the present tense through ceaseless displacement.