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Category Archives: short stories
About Short Stories
Maybe you remember last summer when I had a whirl with American plays. Lately I’ve been in the mood for short stories. So much so that I organized a desk around them and am trying to become acquainted with the … Continue reading →
The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín
The Empty Family –hm. Collection of nine short stories published in 2011. (Just after Brooklyn) Starts with an interesting anecdote by Henry James . . .
Dole Girl by Barbara Hamby
“Dole Girl” is a short story that just won the Aura Estrada Short Story Contest for 2015. It is currently published by Boston Review in the July-August issue and can be read for free through the internet. Just look … Continue reading →
“Araby” by James Joyce
In “Araby,” another of the short stories of Dubliners, the narrator is again a young boy who lives with his aunt and uncle. The boy has become attracted to a neighborhood girl, the “big sister” of one of his friends.
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“The Boarding House” by James Joyce
This is another story in the Dubliners collection. James Joyce wrote about the people of Dublin–not the down and outers like those in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, but, a step up, about people making their livings, barely—with scanty occupations and little visible … Continue reading →
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“The Sisters” by James Joyce
This is the first of fifteen short stories in James Joyce’s collection Dubliners. (It’s not “The” Dubliners, just Dubliners.) The first line: “There was no hope for him this time: it was his third stroke.” That’s Joyce for you—-off and … Continue reading →
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Book Review: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
“Imagine a morning in late November.” That’s the first line and off we go with a beautiful tale about a little boy and an older woman who is his distant cousin. They are loose-end relatives and are each other’s best … Continue reading →
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