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“Fiction is an attack in the night…” #shortstoryseptember #rosalindbrackenbury

My final read for Short Story September is a collection which only arrived recently at the Ramblings, but which I was very excited to receive - "No Such Thing as a Free Lunch" by Rosalind Brackenbury. The latter, who is still writing novels today (her latest title "Bone Whispers", came out last year), is an unjustly neglected author who has fortunately found a champion in the form of Michael…

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/fiction-is-an-attack-in-the-night-shortstoryseptember-rosalindbrackenbury/

“Fiction is an attack in the night…” #shortstoryseptember #rosalindbrackenbury

My final read for Short Story September is a collection which only arrived recently at the Ramblings, but which I was very excited to receive – “No Such Thing as a Free Lunch” by …

Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Three short #Gothick romances by #MaryShelley: ‘Transformation’, ‘The Invisible Girl’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’. #RIPxx #ShortStorySeptember #Bookstodon https://wp.me/pezD85-J9
Matter most horrid: #RIPxx

Roche Castle, Pembrokeshire. Transformation by Mary Shelley. ‘Transformation’, ‘The Invisible Girl’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1831-4). Th…

Calmgrove Books

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL’s #TopTenTuesday - #ShortStorySeptember - September 16, 2025. My favorite short stories and collections. I'm hoping Jana @ArtsyReaderGirl won't mind my doing a non-theme list this week, but... #shortstories light my fire? #bookmemes #booklist

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/09/16/tcls-toptentuesday-shortstoryseptember-september-16-2025/

TCL’s #TopTenTuesday – #ShortStorySeptember – September 16, 2025.

The topic for my fourth #TTT for 2025 is my own: Short Story Collections! According to Jana’s website: “Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was …

The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog

#bookthreads #booksky 💙📚#bookstodon A TCL #ShortStorySunday - Quin-Essential. My #bookreviews for the first two #ShortStories from "The Mysterious Mr. Quin" by #AgathaChristie, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to Lisa @ anzlitlovers.com for hosting #ShortStorySeptember #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/09/14/a-tcl-shortstorysunday-post-quin-essential/

A TCL #ShortStorySunday post – Quin-Essential.

Review for the first two Short Stories in “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” by Agatha Christie. Goodreads Summary: “A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost m…

The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog
Reviews of ‘The Spectre Bridegroom’ and ‘The Pride of the Village’ (1819-20) by Washington Irving for #ShortStorySeptember https://wp.me/sezD85-spectr
Death and the maiden: #ShortStorySeptember

Johann David Schubert’s ‘Leonore’. ‘The Spectre Bridegroom’ and ‘The Pride of the Village’ by Washington Irving, from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, G…

Calmgrove Books

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Spirits Without Ghosts? My #bookreview for "A Carol for Mrs. Dickens" by @author.rebecca.connolly on my #bookblog now! Thanks @shadowmountainpub for the @this_is_edelweiss ARC novella. #histficreadingchallenge
#2025NewReleaseChallenge
#ShortStorySeptember

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/09/08/spirits-without-ghosts/

Spirits Without Ghosts?

Book Review for “A Carol for Mrs. Dickens” by Rebecca Connolly. Summary: “By 1851, all of London has fallen in love with A Christmas Carol, heralding Charles Dickens as “the man who invented …

The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog
Winding Up the Week #436
https://bookjotter.com/2025/08/23/winding-up-the-week-436/
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce Short Story September, keep up with literary anniversaries, focus on a past post deserving to be read, talk some more about the Moomins and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet. #ShortStorySeptember #amreading #bookstodon #books #BookBloggers
Winding Up the Week #436

This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce Short Story September, keep up with literary anniversaries, focus on a …

Book Jotter
It’s #shortstoryseptember. Today you could read my folk horror story set in this #abandoned outdoor swimming pool. ‘The Middening’ at Fireside Quarterly https://firesidefiction.com/the-middening #writing #FolkHorror #scotland #ShortStory
The Middening

“You’re lucky if you marry a fisherman.” That’s what they told us growing up, but there are not many fishermen left around here.

It's #ShortStorySeptember with
Storytelling Collective again.

Let's see if I can actually finish this mermaid story I've been working on.