Bite-sized Book Club Archive

This is a list of stories we have read for Bite-sized Book Club sessions since the group started in March 2025, for reference and as a taster for anyone who is interested in joining.

March 2025 - Stories by Sara Hills:

1. Eating Out (Fictive Dream, February 2025)
2. Hey Lisa I Hope You Like (SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2023)
3. A Beachcomber's Guide to Desert Grief (Bath Flash Fiction Award, October 2022)
4. Each Breath a Chain (Janus Literary, February 2021)

April 2025 - Historical Fiction:

1. Ice Man, by Jan Stinchcomb (FlashBack Fiction, January 2019)
2. Tomorrow I Will Be a Body in a Well, by Lixin Foo (Sundial Magazine, September 2023)
3. Foundering, by Matthew Richardson (FlashBack Fiction, October 2020)
4. Madame Curie Divines Pure Radium While French Kissing a Beautiful Stranger, by Tara Isabel Zambrano (Swamp Ape Review, June 2021)

May 2025 - List Stories:

1. Things Left And Found By The Side Of The Road, by Jo Gatford (Bath Flash Fiction Award, February 2018)
2. People Present on Carnaby Street on a Saturday Afternoon in Early May, by Matt Kendrick (Fractured Lit, March 2024)
3. What the dead take with them, by Kik Lodge (Milk Candy Review, February 2024)
4. Things The Witch Thinks About While Not Drowning, by Jo Withers (Ghost Parachute, September 2021)

June 2025 - Stories by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris:

1. Hotlines (Pithead Chapel, July 2022)
2. Trust the Process (Centaur, November 2023)
3. The Story You'll Never Tell (Fractured Lit, March 2024)
4. Elephant (Bending Genres, August 2024)

July 2025 - Funny Stories:

1. Book Club Dip, by Myna Chang (Funny Pearls, April 2020)
2. How to Take a Vacation: A Guide for Medieval Women, by Maria Poulatha (Okay Donkey, March 2022)
3. Sinkhole, by Sherri Turner (Funny Pearls, March 2019)
4. Re: Your Short Story Collection, by Camille Verzal (SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2021)

August 2025 - Micro Fiction:

1. It Finally Happened, by Jad Josey (Atlas and Alice, August 2020)
2. Frog Music, by Meg Pokrass (50-Word Stories, July 2025)
3. Lost in the Woods For 37 Days, A Dying Man Looks to the Sky and Tries to Find God, by Jared Povanda (HAD, November 2021)
4. Two Shorts (I cross examined a pear / Toe, Stone), by Elena Zhang (HAD, March 2025)