31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “Meet You at the Door” by Lawrence Hill
Hill's short story was first published in the Walrus in 2011.
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Hill's short story was first published in the Walrus in 2011.
The story has numerous commonalities with Everil Worrell's pulp horror tale "Leonora."
Worrell foregrounds the degree to which male members of the medical establishment dismiss or ignore women's complaints.
Short story writers operate in a literary form that seems endlessly malleable, protean, and open to experimentation.
"Finding ways to improve the experience is my favourite thing about the festival," says Richardson.
A detailed and propulsive true crime story, Clara at the Door with a Revolver is also a work of social history.
The police used Section 7 of the U.K. Terrorism Act 2000 as justification for the detention.
Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.
The pith and substance of both books involves an interrogation of what is genuine and what is kayfabe.
Izzy's mother, Lindsey, was diagnosed with the disease when she was thirty.