Tag: short story

  • Radio Show | Linda Beed

    Radio Show | Linda Beed

    Author, Linda Beed, will discuss the her short story, “Flavorful” included in the Anthology, Home Again: Stories of Restored Relationships. Linda has also authored the novel, Business Unusual. So tune in. ___________________________________________________________ Linda Beed is a gifted educator, speaker and author of the award-winning novel, Business Unusual the first in the Covenant Series. The second…

  • Radio Show | Anjuelle Floyd, and “The Bridge”

    Author and host of Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters, Anjuelle Floyd, reads her short story, The Bridge from her collection, discusses her book, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident“. So tune in. ___________________________________________ Please note: Anjuelle Floyd will be on hiatus during December 2009 for site maintenance and upgrade. We will return Monday, January…

  • An Idea for a Story…

    An Idea for a Story…

    I have the idea for a story. It may turn into a novel. For now it opens with, “…The great god Maui, it is said, created the island Maui, by tricking his brothers into thinking he had caught a huge fish. He told them to paddle faster so that he could pull the fish to…

  • The Value of Earning a MFA

    The Value of Earning a MFA

    The jewel in the crown of my experience in earning my MFA lay not in achieving a marked improvement in my writing. While my MFA thesis went on to be published by a small press, the greatest gift I gave myself in undergoing the rigorous and rugged course of study, was the habit I developed…

  • another blessed and glorious day…

    today was another blessed and glorious day. i spoke with a writer friend of mine. she’s having problems finding work. so many of us are. it’s sad. i hope things will get better. until then i want to focus on helping those i know and encounter in hanging in there surviving–giving them what i’d want…

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…

  • “Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

    Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229) At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until…