Category: Short Stories

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One Morning in Provence by Lorna Fergusson, When You Need to Choose Change

One Morning in Provence by Lorna Fergusson

There are books that slip in quietly, carrying with them the warmth of distant sun and the faint hum of memory. One Morning in Provence, Lorna Fergusson’s collection of literary short stories, is such a read. When you see yourself in need to choose change, how do you know if you’re ready for it?

Lorna Fergusson also wove her voice into our new anthology Courage, Tales of History, Mystery and Hope, writing its introduction with a sensibility attuned to the fragile intersections between place and person.

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How Short Stories Actually Hold Entire Lifetimes and Why It’s Important

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Readers and writers can dispute the amount of room left to wonder in a short story – and say there simply isn’t enough space.

In a short narrative every sentence must carry weight: be it wound, memory, betrayal, or simply longing. Sometimes an entire lifetime must survives inside a single gesture. This could be something as mundane as a hand reaching for a letter that arrived too late. Like in my short story Kate’s Letter included in the anthology Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope.

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Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope, Pre-Order Now #CourageAnthology

Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope

The old storytellers would have said that courage does not arrive with trumpets. It comes quieter than that: with footsteps in deep snow; with a hand reaching to help when all instinct says withdraw.

And so Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope was born.
Courage is not the absence of fear—it is the decision to face it.

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