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Short Story Reading Challenge 2023

6 Jan 20236 Jan 2023

With each new year, it’s fun to set up new reading goals and challenges. This year, consider challenging yourself with this list of bookish prompts. You can choose to follow…

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Short Listed: January 2023

13 Jan 202313 Jan 2023

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa Short Story Fest 2023 will be held this year in Baltimore,…

Short Listed: December 2022

2 Dec 20222 Dec 2022

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.…

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Short Listed: November 2022

5 Nov 20225 Nov 2022

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde What to Read Call a Body Home by Michael Alessi Can love for home be…

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Short Listed: October 2022

3 Oct 202210 Oct 2022

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire What To Read Sin Eaters by Caleb…

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Short Listed: September 2022

5 Sep 20224 Sep 2022

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien Goodbye, Summer. Thanks for the memories.…

Doughnuts and Doom

1 Sep 20222 Sep 2022

With the autumn coming to soon say farewell to summer, a novel with a premise about a Sapphic romance between a witch and a struggling musician was enough to sell…

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Carmilla

16 May 202215 May 2022

With every book they publish, many authors likely have a goal to have their stories immortalized forever. Some stories fade into obscurity, while others have staying power that outlasts in…

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A Short Story Fest 2022 Feature: Interview with Donna Ledbetter

21 Apr 202215 May 2022

With 2022, comes a return for Short Story Book Club (SSBC). Kicking off in May comes Short Story Fest 2022. Short stories are a great way to get reading into…

The Man Who Lived Underground

19 Feb 202219 Feb 2022

By Donna Ledbetter It seems the police have always been at odds with oppressed people. At a time when misgivings about the police run rampant through the minds of poor,…

Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms

31 Jan 202219 Feb 2022

By Olive Dausinas As August skims away into September, so does the summer inevitably fade. With vacations ending and people heading back to school, perhaps it would make sense to…

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Short Story Reading Challenge 2022

29 Jan 202222 Apr 2022

How many stories will you read in 2022? Short Story Book Club member Kate Wood read over 100 books in 2021, and she doesn't have plans to stop any time…