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Short Story Monday: The Hossack Murder
The first story I reviewed for Short Story Monday, back in January 2010, was a very clever story by Susan Glaspell. It was A Jury of Her Peers. I still remember how the story carefully unfolded and how...
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Short Story: The Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
Clark, a young man now studying in Boston, tells us about his Aunt Georgiana. The first half of Georgiana’s life centered around music. By her early twenties she was a music teacher trained better than...
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Short Story: Kindling by Raymond Carver
I read some Raymond Carver short stories back in the 1970s, I recall liking them. So when I went looking for them again, I learned there were a few stories published posthumously. I chose to read...
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Recalculating by Jennifer Weiner
Maureen, after thirty years of marriage, became a widow. Although Maureen believes no one else knows, she was abused from the very beginning of her marriage. Her husband abused her via severe pinching,...
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Short Story: Brother Robber by Helene Christaller
I went looking for simple, classic short stories centered on the celebration of Christmas. I found a nice collection of them called Home For Christmas. Some of the stories from the collection are...
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Short Story Monday: A Presidential Candidate
Today is the official holiday designated to celebrate, I guess, the birthdays of all US presidents. It used to be that on February 12th we celebrated Lincoln’s birthday and February 22nd we celebrated...
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Short Story Monday: Reconstruction Work
I’ve been enjoying Julie/Read Handed‘s Monday posts. She’s been introducing us to Flash Fiction. If you’re like me, you’re saying, “Flash what?” Is this fiction that goes so fast I might miss it if I...
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Short Story Monday: Chefoo, China by Thornton Wilder
When I was a young girl one of the highlights of our church life was the visits from our missionaries. They always wore native costumes and told us about the countries they came from. Their slide-shows...
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Short Story Monday: Arson Plus
Every week I receive a short story from the Library of America. This week’s story was classic detective fiction from none other than Dashiel Hammett. In case you’ve forgotten, Hammett is the genius who...
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Great Southern Storytelling: Ford County by John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday, 2009 Audiobook: Narrated by the author – 8 hours, 42 minutes I found this audio gem at the library about six months ago. I don’t know why it’s been sitting all this time untouched...
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