Short Stories

[close] March 7th, 2016 we started our read along of SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, Book 1 in The Grantchester Mystery Series to prepare for Season 2 of the PBS Masterpiece Theater show, GRANTCHESTER. Starting April 6th, we're doing the 2nd book in the series, SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE PERILS OF THE NIGHT. Please feel free to join in! Please see the discussion board for schedule and details.

[close] October 11, 1940 Dearest Zelda, ...I expect to be back on my novel any day and this time to finish, a two months' job. The months go so fast that even "Tender Is the Night" is six years' away. I think the nine years that intervened between "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender" hurt my reputation almost beyond repair because a whole generation grew up in the meanwhile to whom I was only a writer of Post stories. I don't suppose anyone will be much interested in what I have to say this time and it may be the last novel I'll ever write, but it must be done now because, after fifty one is different. One can't remember emotionally, I think except about childhood but I have a few more things left to say.... With dearest love,

[close] The year is 1952. Scarlet Rey MacAlister has a permanent room on the Great Memphis Line passenger train. She rides it from town to town. It makes her feel free. Maybe she's really just running from the pain of her life. Maybe she's just looking for something. Searching really for more out of life. But someone is after her, or maybe her family's fortune. And the train is her only refuge.  

[close] This group is a place to discuss short literary fiction--short stories, novellas, flash fiction, etc.