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  The Goophered Grapevine

  Charles W Chesnutt

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  The Goophered Grapevine is the first short story from The Conjure Woman, published in The Atlantic in August 1887, told to the narrator by Julius McAdoo, a former enslaved man who lives on the plantation that the narrator, John, and his wife, Annie, visit one day. Set in Patesville, North Carolina, John and Annie moved there for an improvement in his wife's health and to seek other business opportunities. Knowing that the couple wanted to purchase the property, McAdoo advises them not to do so, informing them that when Dugal McAdoo, the previous master, purchased the property, it was very rich in wine production because of its vineyards. To protect his grapes from being stolen, Master McAdoo consulted with a conjure woman, Aunt Peggy, who placed a curse on the vineyard and warned the slaves that whoever stole them, would die within a year. Henry, a new slave, did not know of the curse, and when he ate the grapes, he was cursed to age when the leaves of the vines withered and once the vines died, so did Henry. Suffering the loss of his slaves and his vineyard, Master McAdoo left the vineyard abandoned after the war to the current state in which the couple found it. McAdoo warns the couple against purchasing the property due to it still being cursed, but the narrator buys the vineyard regardless.

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  The Age of Doubt

  Kyongni Pak

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  The Age of Doubt collects some of Pak Kyongni's most famous works, including her 1955 debut and other stories featuring characters that would appear in her 21-volume epic, Toji. Many of Pak's stories reflect her own turbulent experiences during the period following the Korean war and the various South Korean dictatorships throughout the twentieth century.

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  A Collection Of Stories Reviews...

  Willa Sibert Cather

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  Stories and essays by Willa Cather - Summary by david wales

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  House of Secrets - Every Room...

  Members Of The Ohio Writers...

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  If keeping secrets is integral to the human soul, so is
  the desire to uncover the secrets of others. The delicate balance between
  preserving, revealing, and discovering secrets breeds conflict and the power of
  knowledge. Yet, as we learn to harness this power and manage these conflicts,
  we develop trust and discretion.
  What secrets will you uncover in this anthology of 26
  short mysteries, thrillers & memoirs?
  Written by members of The Ohio Writers' Association, in their 3rd collaboration for audiobook production with members of the Ohio Audiobook Narrators. Made possible in part by the Ohio Arts Council.
  - “Art House” by Marty Vian, narrated by Gary Smith
  - “Secret o' Life” by Ed Davis, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “In Memoriam” by Jim Hodnett, narrated by Angus Freathy
  - “The Distance Between Us” by Terri Sutton, narrated by Dinah Dawson
  - “A Thousand Words Denied” by Jerry Vandal, narrated by Angus Freathy
  - “Your Other Life” by Peter Gorman, narrated by Becky White
  - “Home” by Timothy Doyle, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “The Evil Twin” by George Pallas, narrated by Angus Freathy
  - “Reaper's Return” by Christina Moore, narrated by Becky White
  - “Leakproof” by Charles O'Donnell, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “Redemption” by Darin Miller, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “Finder's Fee” by Michael Whitfield, narrated by Grant Bunting
  - “Vacant” by Corrina Malek, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “Just a Touch” by Lois Spencer, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “Throwing Stones” by Stephen Kraynak, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “Secret Blood, Sacred Blood” by Jyotsna Sreenivasan, narrated by Becky White
  - “A Story You Have to Be Sober to Tell” by Chase Montana, narrated by Gary Smith
  - “Fifteen Minutes” by Robbi Bryant, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “The Dancing Queen” by Edward Gosnell, narrated by Gary Smith
  - “Catacombs” by Bill Vernon, narrated by Gary Smith
  - “Being Normal” by Steven Kenneth Smith, narrated by Gary Smith
  - “Who Wants Pie?” by Sandy Kachurek, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “Last of My Kind” by Maureen McGuirk, narrated by Phillipa Miller
  - “Salted Away” by Craig Webb, narrated by Gary Smith
  - “Fates Entwined” by Jerry Roth, narrated by Becky White
  - “Such Secrets as Starfish Keep” by Steve Kaczmarek, narrated by Gary Smith

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  Mrs Pierrepoint - From their...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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  Astonishment of Stars An - Stories

  Kirti Bhadresa

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  A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationships, aspirations, and the burdens of memory and expectations
  		 
  “Sharply observed and gracefully told, this is a collection shining with all the unexpected delights and defeats that make up a life.” — Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis
  		 
  The wife who uses the name of her white husband in public. The mother who cleans the small-town hospital while her daughter moves to the city to forget their shared past. The well-behaved teen girl who anxiously watches her older sister slip further and further away from their hovering parents. Each of these characters is both familiar and singular, reminding us of women we have been, of our mothers and daughters, neighbors and adversaries.
  		 
  Kirti Bhadresa is a keen observer of humanity, especially of the BIPOC women whose domestic and professional work is the backbone of late-stage capitalism but whose lives receive so little attention in mainstream culture. An Astonishment of Stars is a collection that sees those who are unseen and cuts to the heart of contemporary womanhood, community collisions, and relationships both chosen and forced upon us.

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