Happy Memorial Day!
Settle in for some (easy-but-intense) reading—a short story collection, MULTI-GENRE, that features females wielding power!
Here is the prolificworks_dot_com (formerly instafreebie) link to your FREE COPY of the book.
https://claims.prolificworks.com/free/yiFUpiP9
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Enjoy!
New chapter in the Charlotte serial today. This one drops into the shop, where welding becomes its own kind of quiet:
“With the visor down and my eyes six inches from the arc, the world becomes small. It shrinks to the weld, the bright arc, and the cascading sparks.”
And Charlotte? She picks it up faster than she should.
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https://charlottethenovel.substack.com/p/chapter-2-the-smoker?r=6v9b6f
Last Night In Montreal by Emily St John Mandel
A wonderfully atmospheric and melancholic noir exploring family ties, obsession and how one action has an impact on a number of lives. The writing draws you in, but certain writing choices were odd or didn't work for the story.
Proles by Barry Bergman
A meaningful portrait of the distance between conviction and consequence
The post Proles by Barry Bergman appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/02/04/proles-by-barry-bergman/
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#Writing a short story (genre fic, not #LitFic , where it's all prose and not plot-forward) is like an animal hunting in the wild.
You surround the story idea and the characters. And you encircle it, constantly cutting off possible escape routes. You feint this way and that, until the story gets an inkling of what is coming...
By the end, you calmly apply the killing stroke—and the story, the reader, realizes that there was only one possible way it could end.
Mark Harbinger
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