If you care, will that care benefit you? Evening the ScoreCan music soothe you after years of performing? The Ballad of Tom JoeHow do you get by after your father causes you to lose sight in one eye? Patched LivesWhile drinking tea at the Mount Horeb Coroner’s office, can Otter Frenchette solve the murder of a driving examiner stabbed with a fountain pen? Tea at the MorgueWhat happened to Sherlock Holmes and his associates? Sherlock’s Birthday Inside are these stories and others by the Stateline Night Writers group. The Stateline Night Writers formed more than a decade ago in Wisconsin, at the Beloit Public Library. In its current iteration, it’s a select Zoom group whose members are from as far away as Washington State on the West Coast and Virginia on the East.
They represent a variety of writing styles and storytelling. No labor of love is lost. The writers meet and share writing and inspirations, no matter how tangled the yarns may be. Here are 38 selections from among many, with an expectation that you will enjoy reading them as much as they enjoyed writing them.
May they inspire you to write and share your treasures, new and old.