Fiction… 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…
Book and Reading Culture… 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…
Literary Q & A… 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…
Fiction… 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,…
Book and Reading Culture… 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…
Book and Reading Culture… SSBC Podcast: Holiday Reinhorn 3 May 201931 May 2021 In the latest episode of the Short Story Discussions podcast, we chat with short-story writer Holiday Reinhorn. She is the author of Big Cats: Stories from Free Press. A graduate…
Book and Reading Culture… Junot Diaz 23 Feb 201931 May 2021 Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the United States, in his work Junot Diaz tells the story of the immigrant experience. He has taken the events of his…
Fantasy… Ep5 SSBC Podcast: Bob Mustin 21 Feb 201931 May 2021 Bob Mustin joins Short Story Book Club on the latest episode of Short Story Discussions. Bob is the author of The Blue Bicycle, which was chosen as the SSBC Short…
Book and Reading Culture… Short Stories for Your National Day of Service 21 Jan 201931 May 2021 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered for standing up to injustice. His life taught us that sometimes some things are worth doing so…
Book and Reading Culture… 5 Things We Love About Short Stories 20 Jan 201931 May 2021 My partner and I over here at Short Story Book Club think short stories are pretty sweet. Since starting our book club, we’ve been on a mission to help other…
Movies and Film… 3 Short Stories to Fuel Your Astoria Borealis Conspiracies 29 Dec 201831 May 2021 UFO sightings are usually the stuff of science fiction, but this week in New York, some people say we were visited by beings from outer space. And with the advent…
Book and Reading Culture… 7 Short Stories for Christmas 29 Dec 201831 May 2021 It’s no secret that having shared stories is one of the things that binds people together. Usually when we think of stories in this way, we think about families. We…
