SHORT STORY CLUB Our titles for April 2022 are… “There Will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury (1950) and “The Black Stain,” by Nnedi Okorafor in the collection “Kabu Kabu” (2013) and “Beneath the National Palace of Culture,” by Garth Greenwell (2015) We will gather online in April 2022 to discuss. Join Short Story Club
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Short Story Club Titles for March 2022
Our stories for March 2022 are… “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” by J. D. Salinger (1948) and “The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie,” by Pat Cadigan (2021) and “The Finkelstein 5,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (2018) We will gather online in March 2022 to discuss. Join Short Story Club
Episode 14 of Read Write Review Out Now
New episode out today. Episode 14. He Finds a Tower / Short Story Club In this episode, I read what I wrote off of Prompt 1 from this three-part challenge and offer another prompt: Your main character finds a small tower buried beneath the ground. In Short Story Club this month, we’re reading “The Appropriation…
Short Story Club Selections for February 2022
Our stories for February 2022 are… “The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett (2004) and “The Gilded Six-Bits,” by Zora Neale Hurston (1933) and “The Strange Story of the World,” by Chigozie Obioma (2019) We will gather online in February 2022 to discuss. Join Short Story Club
Short Story Club Selections for January 2022
Our stories for January 2022 are… “The Killers,” by Ernest Hemingway (1927) and “New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat (1996) and “Jubilee,” by Kirsten Valdez Quade (2013) We will gather online in January 2022 to discuss. Want in? Comment on this post and I will send you more information.
Short Story Club Selections for December 2021
Our stories for December 2021 are… “The Dead,” by James Joyce (1914) and “The Husband Stitch,” by Carmen Maria Machado (2014) and “Sweat,” by Zora Neale Hurston (1926). We meet online each month the discuss the titles. In December, we’ll get together on the 12th. Reply to this post if you’d like to join, or…
Short Story Club Selections for November 2021
A few of us last night got online together and talked some about the stories “The Tenth of December,” by George Saunders; “Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, And No Apology,” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires; and “The Lady with the Toy Dog,” by Anton Chekhov. In November, we’re reading: “The Monkey’s…
Unintentional Bookshelf Decolonization
I was in middle school, maybe, when my mom and I helped re-seed a trail over a small number of indigenous burial mounds that had been worn down by hikers in our nearby state park. I remember distinctly that we and a dozen or so other volunteers formed something of an assembly line that snaked…
Another Story Out in September
Last week I got word that another short story of mine will be published in September. This is such great news. This particular story is about the invisibility of motherhood. There is bloodshed. 🙂 Yay! I am reading a lot and writing a lot lately. I’m obsessed with the story “Tenth of December,” by George…
Good Ancestor Podcast & two takeaways
I’ve been keeping track of the podcasts I’ve been taking in over these past few days as I’ve been re-organizing my media playlists. Especially since George Floyd was murdered, I have been seeking podcasts and hosts and media figures who are BIPOC. I’m really liking Good Ancestor Podcast with Layla F. Saad. I’ve heard two…