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Previous Stories

July 6th 2024
A Deal on Change by Robert Barr

August 3rd 
2024
The Summer People by Shirley Jackson

Special AED Training offered prior to September 7th Literary Group
https://www.watervillevalleynh.gov/osceola-library/events/19791


September 7th 2024
The Epic Gilgamesh

October 5th 2024
Queenie by Alice Munro

November 2nd 
2024
Love by Anton Chekhov
 
December 7th 
2024
Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor
​SATURDAY DECEMBER 2ND 2023
Sinking House

January 6 2024
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen

February 3 2024

Pilot, Co-Pilot, Writer
Manuel Gonzales

March 2 2024
Madame Tellier's Establishment
Guy de Maupassant

April 6 2024
The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

May 4 2024
Paul's Case
Willa Siebert Cather

June 1 2024
A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell

SATURDAY JANUARY 7, 2023
THE BLACK MONK BY ANTON CHEKHOV

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2023

AN UNWRITTEN NOVEL BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

SATURDAY MARCH 4, 2023
THE LOOKING GLASS BY ANTON CHEKHOV

SATURDAY APRIL 1, 2023
SMOKERS BY TOBIAS WOLFF

SATURDAY MAY 6, 2023
A SACKFUL OF SEEDS BY SALMAN RUSHDIE

SATURDAY JUNE 3, 2023
AFTER THE END BY BEN OKRI

SATURDAY JULY 8, 2023
A Good Man is Hard to Find


SATURDAY AUGUST 5TH
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz


SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND

Eve's Diary

SATURDAY OCTOBER 7TH
The Tribute

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4TH
The Squire’s Daughter 

SATURDAY DECEMBER 2ND
Sinking House
​October
29-Ghost Apples by Jacob Wrich
Nov
5-All That Floats by Nishant Batsha
12-Accounting by Gina Wohldorf
If you have any questions or need help finding these stories, please email leah@thereycenter.org
​September
3-Eulogy by Jason McMonagle
10-Ambition by Carolyn Murdoch
17- A Place for Us by Brandon Hobson
​24-After Music by Joel Gardner
​August
6-A Mother’s Son by Michael Croft
13-Takes Enemy by Shann Ray
20-A Son of Baghdad by Dena K. Mohammad
27-A Funky Assortment of Plates by Earl Marona Jr.
July
2-Children of Light by Robert Stone
9-A Taste for Lionfish by Megan Mayhew Bergman
16-Little Ships by Sandra Scofield
23-A Last Set by Daniel Pope
30-A Horse Walks into a Bar by S. Asher Sund
June
4-A Place for Us by Brandon Hobson
​11-A Personal Statement by Charles Wheelan

18-Fifteen by Ellen Wilbur
25-Safe Harbor by Morgan Talty
May
7- The Hurt Man by Wendell Barry
14-Commis by Don Lee
21-In Search of Inner Mongolia by Daniel Chernin
28-Little White Birds by Natash Ayaz
​April 2022
2-The Runaways
9-Good Neighbors by Daniel Pope
16-At the Center of the Sailing World By Will Boast
23- At the Edge of the Forest, Close to Home by Deborah-Anne Tunney
30- All Good Here by Kevin Shushtari
March 2022
5- A Trout in The Milk by James William Brown (repeat for additional discussion)
12-A Small Blip on an Eternal Timeline, by Ifeoma Sesian Amobi
19-Ash Heap of History: June 9, 1982 by Mihail Iossel
26-From End of Empire by 
Marissa Davis
October 2021
2-The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
9-Theft by Katherine by Anne Porter
16-Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing
23-A young Person with Get-Up-and-Go Ann Parsons
30-Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver PDF Version Here
November 2021

6-Revenge by Ellen Gilchrist
13-The Laughing Man 
20- Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison
27-Foster by Claire Keegan
December 2021
4-The Catbird Seat by James Thurber
11-One Arm by Yasurnari Kawabata
18-The Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth
January 2022
1- A Childs Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
​8-Smokers by Tobias Wolff
15-Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
22-At the Center of the Sailing World by Will Boast
29-Delia's Father
February 2022
5-The Found Boat by Alice Munro
12-Happiness by Marian Crotty
19-Deep Eddy by D.T. Lumpkin
26-Ghost Dogs by Andre Dubus III

September 2021
4-Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
11-Leaving Home by Roxana Robinson
​18-Ice Flowers by Joyce Thompson
25-The Turkey Season by Alice Munro

​August 2021
7- Words to Live By by Aimee Labrie
14-
A. Roolette by Adam Prince
21-Sagrada Family by Holiday Reinhorn
28-​ 
Across the Sea: A Sequence by Gbenga Adesina
​July
3-Atomic Facts by Tom Grimes
10-Bull by Kathy Anderson
17-Outrage by Alvaro Enrigue
24-The Revenant by Edwidge Danticat
31-Pineapple Crush by Etger Keret
​
June
5-Jorge Luis Borges
12-Someone Else Besides You by Viet Thang Nguyen
19- Chicken Morning, Noon & Night by Tasha Karluka   
26-A Dark and Empty Corner by Olga Zilberbourg
May
1-A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert
8-A Different Ending by Shaily Menon
15-A Doctor, A Lawyer and A Priest by David Sipress
22-A Small Hotel by Robert Olen Butler
29-The Hunter's Wife by Anthony DoerrApril
3-Vera by Carol Edgarian  
10-A Friendly Round of Golf by Richard Smith
17-A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer Dubois 
24-Stepping on Bees by Cameron Mitchell
March
6-Suburbia! by Amy Silverberg Review
13-A Shrine at the Inn by Sacha Idell
20-  Asylum by David Constantine

27-Gabe by Holiday Reinhorn
​
February 2021
6-The Basilisk, Paul Kingsnorth; Biography 
13-How To Pass, Louise Crimmins Piantedosi
20-Close to the Body-Fifth Place, Sarit Elkon 

27-Late Rumspringa, Austin Smith
January 2021
2-A New Year's Eve Letter to Friends, David Clewell
9-A River Of Stars, Vanessa Hua
16-A Trout in the Milk James William Brown
23-All the Way Rider, Mattox Roesch
30- Aramaic Cherise Wolas 
​December 2020

5- Bringing Back The Snow, Riky Cohen
12-A Box to Hide In, James Thurber
19-
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere John Chu
26-The Faery Handbag, Kelly Link

Click on the title to download the story 2019-2020 Selections
1/5  
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Arthur Conan Doyle
1/12 The Glamour of the Snow Algernon Blackwood
1/19 The Peace Offering Saki
1/26 A Tranquil Star Primo Levi
​2/2
 To Build a Fire Jack London
​2/9 Amundsen Alice Munro
2/16 A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury
2/23 The Long Black Line John L' Heureux
​​3/2 The Conversion of the Jews Philip Roth
3/9 
Symbols and Signs Vladamir  ​Nabokov
​3/16 
The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde
* Bonus Selection Happy St. Patricks Day (fable) 
​
The Leprehaun Lady Jane Francesca Wilde 
3/23 
Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald
3/30 Strawberry Spring Stephen King
​4/6 
The Refugee Bernard Malamud
4/13 
The Man from Mars Margaret Atwood
4/20 Stone Animals Kelly Link

4/27 The Grasshopper Anton Chekhov
5/4 
The Taste Roald Dahl
5/11 Story, With Birds Kevin Canty
5/18 Facing the Forests A.B. Yehoshua
5/25
 Memorial Day Peter Cameron
6/1 For Esme- with Love and Squalor J.D. Salinger
6/8 The Criminal From Lost Honour  Friedrich Schiller ​​
6/15 The Philosophers Adam Ehrlich Sachs
6/22 The Vessel of Wrath Somerset Maugham
6/29 
Trilobites D.J. Pancake
7/6 Ghosts of Bunker Hill Paul D. Marks
7/13 JOIN US FOR OUR NH MUSIC FESTIVAL EVENT FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE
7/20 The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield

7/27 The Girls in Their Summer Dresses Irwin Shaw
08/03 Roman Fever Edith Wharton
08/10 How to Make it to the Promised Land Ellen Umansky
​08/17 Sunrise, Sunset Edwidge Danticat
08/24 The Embassy of Cambodia Zadie Smith
8/31 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dan Newton Selection and Facilitation
09/07 The Country Husband John Cheever

09/14 Gavon's Eve E.F. Benson
09/21 The Doctor and the Rabbi Aimee Bender 
09/28
 Stand by Me Wendell Berry
10/5 Haunting Olivia 
Karen Russell
10/12 The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Alan Poe
10/19 A Ghost Story Mark Twain
10/26 Spring in Fialta Vladimir Nabokov (Dan Newton-Facilitator)
11/02 
Three Days Samantha Hunt
11/09 The secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber
11/16 
The Elephant Vanishes Haruki Mirakami (Dan Newton-Facilitator)
11/23 Home Alice Munro
11/30 The Loudest Voice Grace Paley

12/07 Wilderness Tips Margaret Atwood (Dan Newton-Facilitator)
12/14 Love in the Tall Grass Claire Keegan
​12/21 The Golden Honeymoon Ring Lardner
12/28 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote

​January 2020
​
1/4       Talpa  Juan Rulfo, Facilitator Dan Newton
1/11     Birthmates  Gish Jen
1/18     A Silver Dish   Saul Bellow
1/25     Death and the Maiden Michel Tournier
February
2/1       Seven Floors 
  Dino Buzzati, 
Facilitator Dan Newton
2/8       The Capital of the World Ernest Hemingway
2/15     Like Life   Lorrie Moore
2/22     In a Grove  Akutagawa Ryunosuke
2/29     Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead  Milan Kundera
March
​3/7       A Tragedy by the Sea
 Honore De Balzac, 
Facilitator Dan Newton  Balzac Biography
3/14    Verona: A Young Woman Speaks Harold Brodkey
3/21    The Best Girlfriend You Never Had  Pam Houston
3/28    Lagoon  Joseph Conrad
4/4       Bob Darling and Bio Carolyn Cooke
4/11     Bestiary and Bio Julio Cortazar 
4/18     Death of a Bachelor and Bio Arthur Schnitzler Dan Newton Facilitating
4/25     Greasy Lake  and Bio T. Coraghessan Boyle
May 
 5/2    The Gingerbread House, Coover
 5/9    Moving House, Huelle
5/16    From Behind the Veil, Ayyoub
5/23    Lgov, Turgenev 
5/30   I'm your Horse in the Night, and Who, Me a Bum? Valenzuela ​
​
June 2020
6/5      In the Garden, By Leon Rooke Dan Newton Facilitating
6/13    Adventures of a Bather, By Italo Calvino
6/20   Never Marry a Mexican, By Sandra Cisneros 
6/27   Old Man Slave and the Mastiff, By 
Patrick Chamoiseau
July 2020

4- The Keeper of Virgins
11-The Fat Man in History
18- Mr. Green
25-The Story of the Lizard
​
August 2020
1- Where is Everyone, Raymond Carver
8-The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes, Can Xue
15- The Saint V.S. Pritchett
22-Doctor Safi, Mohammed Mrabet
​29-The Devil and Tom Walker, Washington Irving
September 2020
​5-The Other One, Tessa Hadley, Bio
12-Home Sick for Another World, Ottessa Moshfeg
 
19-Betrayal, Patricia Dunker
26-Reflections of Spring, Duong Thu Huong
October 2020
3-The Girl Who Left Her Sock on The Floor, Deborah Eisenberg
10-The Man in the Case, Anton Chekhov
17-A Distant Episode, Paul Bowles ​​
24-You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, Zoe Wicomb
31- Optimists, Richard Ford

November
7- A Riddle, Antonio Tabucchi
14-The Adulterous Woman, Albert Camus 

21- Story of My Weight, Anne Calcagno
27-Honeymoon in Tramore, William Trevor

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