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Thank you, Blue Moon Publishing, for a terrific concept. Often it happens that one of my novels begins as a concept fleshed out and tested among friends via a short story format. Those that exhibit a larger "presence" can be revisited later as full length novels, in which tangential yet promising aspects can be given the attention they deserve. But the original encapsulated short story version still lives on, and I love the short format. I'm very glad too be part of this group!

- Michael Vorhis

Hi Everyone! I love writing short stories - it's so satisfying after working on a long novel! I do find it challenging though - every word counts! And as Michael mentioned, often an idea for a short story turns into a novel! Looking forward to this group and building a community for short stories :)

Thank for the invitation to join! Love short stories! This group looks like an excellent place to find and recommend them :)

Welcome Anita! We had an interesting exchange today about movies based on short stories. If you know of any, share with us under the "Your Favourite Short Stories" folder, or, just let us know what your favourite short stories are :)

Hi to all. I write short short stories to practice storytelling and use them to introduce myself to others. You can see the complete collection at http://www.jackdurish.com/short-stori...

I also have published several in other venues including www.ReadWave.com where more than 11,000 readers have viewed them. I recommend ReadWave highly. It is a great source of free short stories.

Enjoy, and I look forward to reading yours as well.

Happy to be here! My short stories have been published all over the place, but here's one, "Synchronicity," very short, you can read for free http://buzzymag.com/synchronicity-by-...

I'm really excited to find this group. (Thanks for the invite, Digiwriting!) I've been working on some short shorts lately. I have five flash stories started, and one nearly finished. (I'm working on them as part of Holly Lisle's free Flash Fiction course: "How to Write Flash Fiction That Doesn't Suck". I love the course title. ^_^ I'm on lesson 2 of 3.) Once I finish the first one, I plan on putting it up on my blog for free. Then I'm going to do a collection of the five together, which will likely also be free (or cheap).

I also write longer pieces, but have yet to finish any of my novels in progress. Although I did finish a novella (I think, 50-something pages, whatever that length is called) last year. I don't have anything published online. Well, not under this name. I have a few short pieces up on one website under a pen name (warning: Adults only). If you are interested in reading them, PM me for links, but only if you are 18 or older and not offended by smut. *blushes*

I'm trying to get away from writing just smut, though I still write some explicit scenes. If they fit in the story. No more PWP (porn without plot) for me!

And I've written a lot more than I meant to... I tend to run off at the mouth keyboard when I've had too much caffeine. Consider yourselves warned. ^_^

Hello all! My name is Michelle and you can find me at www.texasbooklover.com. Short stories are my favorite form. I bow to Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, and Gabo. Thanks for the invite!

Welcome Jack, Paul, Lura and Michelle! Check out the "Your Favourite Short Stories" and "Writing Contests 2014" folders, and share some ideas and thoughts with us!

Hi, thanks for inviting me here. I love writing and reading short stories :)

Welcome Maria, and thanks for adding your social media links. We've pinned your short stories to our "Short Story Connect" board on Pinterest! We're curious to know what your favourite collections are - let us know in the "Your Favourite Short Stories" folder :)

Hi all, thanks for the invite!

I'm a freelance editor with experience in both short fiction and full-length novels. If anyone is in need of an editor, please feel free to contact me or visit my website.

Happy writing!

Melissa M. | Andriana Editing
http://www.andrianaediting.ca/

Welcome, Melissa. Let us know what your favourite collections are in the "Your Favourite Short Stories" folder!

Thanks for the invitation, Maria! I've written several novels in varies genres, non-fiction and short stories...a useful tool for those characters /storylines that will only go so far. I also like the challenge my writing and short stories brilliantly flexible.

Reading them too, gives a wonderful variety of stories.

Julie wrote: "Thanks for the invitation, Maria! I've written several novels in varies genres, non-fiction and short stories...a useful tool for those characters /storylines that will only go so far. I also lik..."
Nice to see you here, Julie :)

Good morning! I'm a fan of short stories. My first big accomplishment as a writer, several years ago, was finally selling a short story to my favorite fiction magazine (On Spec Magazine). Since then I have had a number of sales (if you are curious: http://blog.brentknowles.com/bibliogr...)

Nice to meet everyone here. And if you'd like to read one of my freely available stories, published a couple years ago, at NewMyths, you can: https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.c...

Have a great day!

Welcome Julie and Brent! Given you're both short story writers, please add to our lists in the short story contests folder if you know of any good ones :)

Hello everyone! Great to meet you. My name is Rachel and I'm the author of a short story series called Avoidables.

I love having a snap shot of short fiction!

Nice to meet you all x

Welcome Rachel! Please add your links in the "Follow Me" section so we can connect further, and, given you're a short story writer, please add to our lists in the short story contests folder if you know of any good ones :)

Hi,
I've mostly been writing poetry and putting together some ideas for a couple of potential novels. I've always found it difficult to write short stories, so I'm hoping to challenge myself.

Cheers
JT

JT,

The challenge is on :) How can we help you with it? Anyone have ideas for JT? We could start up a thread for this, or JT, feel free to start one up yourself - this group is here to support you!

Thanks. I just joined this group for Short Story Connect. I am an author and a blogger. Most of my blogging is done on www.neel48.blogspot.com though occasionally I also put up my posts on www.neelkant16.wordpress.com. Three of my books had been self-published on Amazon. They are:
1. Short Stories for Young Readers - Book 1
2. Short Stories for Success for Young Readers: A New Lexicon Unfolded
3. What If Our Dreams Come True! An Uncommon meeting with Lord Siva (A Novel)
I have also put a couple of my stories from my book in my blog.
T N Neelakantan
www.neel48.blogspot.com

Why, hello everyone. I'm Jasmine Tabor. I am an aspiring author. I mostly write short stories though. Maybe because I only really have time for just that, with school and sports and whatnot.

I honestly love writing short stories. It's fabulous. You write more, create more with so few words. I don't know how people just don't fall in love with this particular writing art form.

I do have to say, though. One day, I would love to write a novel. Not a short story or novella. A novel. With lots and lots of words and a pretty cover.

Another thing, I love to make covers. Most times, I write short stories and I buy sketchbooks and put the story in the sketch book. It ends up looking gorgeous and is really fun.

When I write, when I really get into a story so much that I want to put it into a sketchbook, it helps with my stress levels and makes me feel better even days after.

It's just this sense of feeling proud of yourself. Like you did something. So, if I ever publish a book, I can't even imagine the feeling I'd get from it.

Anyway, it is nice to join this group and I hope I get to know each and every one of you.

Jasmine Tabor

Welcome T N and Jasmine! Since both of you are short story writers, please add to our lists in the "Short story contests" folder if you know of any good ones :)

TN, do you have direct links to your books? Let us know so we can have a read! And Jasmine, let us know if you enter a short story contest so we can read your work when you win :)

Hi Everyone,
I love to read short stories. The most recent collection I read was "Olive Kitteridge." I recently pubished a short story collection on Create Space and Kindle called "Rain Clouds and Waterfalls." This is the link to my author page: amazon.com/author/pipertempleton

Cheers,
Piper

Hi - This sounds like a group for me! I see mentions of Raymond Carver (my favorite author) and Olive Kitteredge (in my top ten books). I look forward to reading your short fiction. I'm on twitter at @jimbrez too. If you have your short fiction published in online journals, I'm happy to retweet it. I had a short piece published in matchbook lit magazine today. http://www.matchbooklitmag.com/

Hi Pipertempleton and Jim, thank you for joining our group! Feel free to start any discussions about "Olive Kitteridge" or Raymond Carver in our group. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks, Digiwriting.

Jim - I just read your story in Matchbook, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. You got so much depth, poignancy and humor in such a short piece.

I'm glad you loved "Olive Kitteridge" too. I might start a thread on it as suggested.

Cheers,
Piper

Hey!

I'm Bobbi Romans, I write all over the board. Short, novella and FL. Basically the story tells itself.

Most recently, my novella A Christmas of Coal and Mistletoe finaled in the Passionate Plume contest. Will find out in July if it wins.

Midnight Velvet, a short paranormal story, released today via Shara Azod.com.

I've written, paranormal, contemporary and a bit of horror.

I live in Florida with my really large and insane family.

Thanks for the invite and happy to be here.
:)
Bobbi

Welcome Bobbi! Congrats on making it to the finals in the contest - check out our "Writing Contest" folder and please add to any sections there.

Greetings! I'm an actress who used to tell my true stories on stage, and have now committed them to writing. My third book is coming out later this year. Here's my blog! Nice to meet you all. :) Valerie RAVING VIOLET Gilbert http://ravingvioletvalerie.blogspot.com

Hi! Thanks for inviting me to this group. I'm Agostino Scafidi, author of 2 eBooks and my 3rd one will be a collection of short stories directly based on my dreams. It's just about ready for release and you can keep up to date on http://thehermitrant.blogpost.ca or on twitter @AgostinoScafidi

Hello, everyone. I'm new here and delighted to have been invited. I can be found here:

http://www.independentauthornetwork.c...

Welcome Valerie, Agostino and Stephen! Please add your social media links in the "Follow Me" folder so we can get connected. And since you're all writers, please add to our lists in the short story contests folder if you know of any good ones coming up :)

Hello and thanks for the invitation, Julie Powell! I write everything from flash fiction horror (http://www.fictionterrifica.com to find my story, LIPS) to mainstream short stories to romantic suspense novels (5 Prince Publishing) to ghost story novels. Let's just say I write the same things I like to read -- everything.

Please visit my blog to see freebies and odd stuff and just to say Howdy (yep, I'm from Texas) ;-) http://www.annswann.blogspot.com

Hello everyone, and thanks very much for inviting me. I write short and long stories, and love reading both.

Welcome Ann and Jo! Please add your social media links in the "Follow Me" folder so we can get connected. And since you're all writers, please add to our lists in the short story contests folder if you know of any good ones coming up :)

Heading over there now. :)

Digiwriting wrote: "Welcome Ann and Jo! Please add your social media links in the "Follow Me" folder so we can get connected. And since you're all writers, please add to our lists in the short story contests folder if..."

Will do, and thanks!
Ann

Hi everybody and thanks for the invite!

I'm Rachel from Pittsburgh, PA and my genre of choice is romance. At this point I'm an aspiring writer about halfway through my first manuscript, but I find short stories to be a great outlet for creative writing.

Looking forward to chatting with you all!

Hi everyone. I'm a new author - debut novel was published March 24, 2014 (Little White Lies)and I've since self published two novels - or novellas. I'm still not clear what constitutes a short story versus novella. But I'm attempting my first true "short story" right now - under 20,000 words. Man is that tough! It definitely takes different brain muscles than a novel. But I'm excited to see where it goes. Thanks for the invite to the group.

Hi, I'm Lanie:). I tend to stick to the UF/PNR genres for the most part. I'm a reader and occasional reviewer. Thanks for the group invite, it's nice to see some familiar faces and meet some new people!

Welcome Rachel, R.C. and Lanie!

Rachel, good luck with your manuscript! Your comment about short stories is interesting - we're going start a thread about that!

R.C. great question - we're going to start a discussion about this!

Lanie, as a reader and reviewer, we hope you can contribute your thoughts to the above discussions.

Thanks and looking forward to talking books and writing :)

Hello everyone. Most folk call me Robb, so you can too.
I write short stories and novels, though I have to say of late I've been looking more at the short form.
I just published my latest short story 'A Sightless Place,' which serves as a prelude to a larger collection I'm working on.
Great to be here and I look forward to chatting with you all and sharing work :)

Hello, thanks for the invite.

I write short stories (and other things!) and particularly like to tell stories with a puzzle or a twist and maybe a ghost or a murder or two!

Thanks for the invite. I write short fiction, which is published in magazines (and in a few books, too.) I straddle between literary fiction and humor.

I blog at http://carlasarett.blogspot.com

Hi Robb, Ellie, and Carla! Thank you for connecting with us, and we are glad to see all these short story authors. Feel free to start any discussions that you may like about specific short stories or writing processes - and don't forget to check out our "Special Opportunity for our Members" thread here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hi Everyone! I came across this group - great discovery! Looking forward to finding out about great short stories to read.

Hello, I'm Robert from Missouri. I am the author of two full length novels, but now I only write short stories in the thriller, mystery and horror genre. My short stories are always FREE for anyone to read at http://robertsnovels.com or at my blog on my profile page. Please take time to read some of my stories and let me know what you think. Glad to be a member and love to connect with other members.