Category: This Far Isn’t Far Enough

“Each story stands on its own as a separate jewel… ” Thank you, Booksie!​To go to Booksie’s blog: click. In these fourteen short stories, Lynn Sloan invites the reader into her thoughts about life and delights and surprises them.  I don’t read anthologies that often as they are often repetitive; each story showing another take on…

My short story “Ollie’s Back,” included in my collection This Far Isn’t Far Enough, was performed by Nate Corddry last year, and is now released in the Selected Shorts program Forgiving and Forgetting. The program is aired on NPR and available as a podcast. July 25, 2019 Forgiving and Forgetting Guest host Robert Sean Leonard presents stories about…

Review: This Far Isn’t Far Enough by Lynn Sloan Short story collections are notoriously hard to sum up succinctly. Unless they are interconnected stories, they might be linked by theme or even just by the fact of their author. And often some stories are far stronger than others. Luckily, in Lynn Sloan’s emotionally resonant collection,…

“VIP parking at the Getty,” my friend exclaimed. So begins the brief essay about my experience with Ollie, the character  in my story that was read at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. To read the essay, click:

Thrilled that my story “Ollie’s Back” from This Far Isn’t Far Enough had been chosen by Selected Shorts for its program “A Feast of Fiction,” at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, I waited outside the auditorium for the show to begin. Mine was the last story and it was to be read by the outstanding actor Nate Cordrry. On that…