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:
- Eating Out (Fictive Dream, February 2025)
- Hey Lisa I Hope You Like (SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2023)
- A Beachcomber's Guide to Desert Grief (Bath Flash Fiction Award, October 2022)
- Each Breath a Chain (Janus Literary, February 2021)
April 2025 - Historical Fiction:
- Ice Man, by Jan Stinchcomb (FlashBack Fiction, January 2019)
- Tomorrow I Will Be a Body in a Well, by Lixin Foo (Sundial Magazine, September 2023)
- Foundering, by Matthew Richardson (FlashBack Fiction, October 2020)
- Madame Curie Divines Pure Radium While French Kissing a Beautiful Stranger, by Tara Isabel Zambrano (Swamp Ape Review, June 2021)
May 2025 - List Stories:
- Things Left And Found By The Side Of The Road, by Jo Gatford (Bath Flash Fiction Award, February 2018)
- People Present on Carnaby Street on a Saturday Afternoon in Early May, by Matt Kendrick (Fractured Lit, March 2024)
- What the dead take with them, by Kik Lodge (Milk Candy Review, February 2024)
- Things The Witch Thinks About While Not Drowning, by Jo Withers (Ghost Parachute, September 2021)
June 2025 - Stories by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris:
- Hotlines (Pithead Chapel, July 2022)
- Trust the Process (Centaur, November 2023)
- The Story You'll Never Tell (Fractured Lit, March 2024)
- Elephant (Bending Genres, August 2024)
July 2025 - Funny Stories:
- Book Club Dip, by Myna Chang (Funny Pearls, April 2020)
- How to Take a Vacation: A Guide for Medieval Women, by Maria Poulatha (Okay Donkey, March 2022)
- Sinkhole, by Sherri Turner (Funny Pearls, March 2019)
- Re: Your Short Story Collection, by Camille Verzal (SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2021)
August 2025 - Micro Fiction:
- It Finally Happened, by Jad Josey (Atlas and Alice, August 2020)
- Frog Music, by Meg Pokrass (50-Word Stories, July 2025)
- 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)
- Two Shorts (I cross examined a pear / Toe, Stone), by Elena Zhang (HAD, March 2025)
September 2025 - Stories by Tim Craig:
- That's All There Is, There Ain't No More (Bath Flash Fiction Award, October 2021)
- Ebb's Nook (New Flash Fiction Review, December 2019)
- Parts of my Mother (Milk Candy Review, January 2022)
- Nails (Gone Lawn, September 2022)
October 2025 - Fairy Tale/Myth Retellings:
- how to stitch the emporor's new clothes, by Nadia Born (WestWord, July 2025)
- If you were red riding hood, by Hannah Grieco (Fairy Tale Review, March 2023)
- Medusa's Bridesmaids, by Jo Withers (Milk Candy Review, December 2020)
- A Queer Girl's Guide to Reading Fairy Tales, by Rebecca Turkewitz (Cincinnati Review, September 2022)
December 2025 - Ekphrastic Stories:
- Three Ways to Lose a Friend, by Linda Grierson-Irish (Flash Fiction Festival Triptych Challenge, January 2023)
- Their Memories, by Jude Higgins (Visual Verse, July 2015)
- Burn It All Down, by Karen Jones (Fractured Lit, April 2023), based on this picture as confirmed in an interview here
- Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted, by Kathryn Kulpa (The Ekphrastic Review, May 2022)
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