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  • Short Story Sunday: Forbidden Love

    It’s Sunday, so it’s short story time again, and this week I’ve abandoned Persephone for Virago and I’m dipping into Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Selected Short Stories, which are every bit as wonderful as I hoped they would be. These tales,… Continue reading

  • A Little Less Conversation Please!

    Edward Hopper’s Room in New York… And there is a link to this week’s Short Story Sunday, I promise… Just read on… It’s Sunday again (it does seem to come round very quickly), and that means it’s time for another… Continue reading

  • Short Story Sunday

    Time for Short Story Sunday again, and I will start by saying I absolutely hated this week’s offering, and had it been the first tale in The Persephone Book of Short Stories I doubt I would have read any further.… Continue reading