Get Your Shorts in a Bunch discussion

My mother, I. C. Talbot was born in 1923 in the little town of North Kingsville, Ohio, and grew up in the Great Depression. She was the first woman in our family to seek a higher education,

My mother wrote over 350 short stories in her lifetime. As soon as Kindle allowed it, we started posting her short stories. She owned a tavern in Ashtabula Ohio and some of the stories are ones she heard there. These are stories of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances.

Some of these are free, on Barnes & Noble website on Amazon they run about $1 to 1.25. There is a collection for $3.99.

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Beware Marjorie -

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Amy Whittaker has been living on the streets since losing her home to a ruthless woman she knows as Marjorie McAdams. Now she's lost in the country and manages to find shelter under a truck topper propped up on straw bales. Sadly this is the best shelter she'd had since Marjorie stole her home. Now what will she do?

This short story is 6.4k words.

Digging Out

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Divorced mother of two, Abby lives with her grandmother and twins, Jed and Jill, on a farm so cluttered there is hardly room to move. One day she snaps, and decides to clean up decades of mess.

To her surprise, people will pay good money for old junk. Even more surprising is someone is after the one thing she values more anything else.

Octogenarian I. C. Talbot wrote pulp fiction from her hill-top home deep in the Kentucky bluegrass region. She published her collection of short stories with the help of her daughter K. A. Jordan.

This short story is 6.5k words.

Paperback is available.

Mazie's Diner

Divorced and between jobs, Katie goes back to her hometown and visits the places where she grew up, specifically Mazie's diner where her mother worked when Katie was a growing up.

Feisty old Mazie is gone and the fate of the old diner is in the air. The place is scruffy, the service is poor but the French fries are still to die for. Katie finds herself vexed by an irritating waitress when she'd rather be lost in a lot of great memories.

Her hometown has issues and a lot of potential. However, nostalgia doesn't pay the bills. If Katie is going to make changes in her life, she needs to get started.

This short story is 5.5k words.

Paperback is available as well.


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The Hide Out

Society is breaking down all around her, but Pat is snug in her hundred-acre hide out. She discovers that there is more to survival than a roof over one's head. A young girl with a passel of kids moves an old shed next to Pat's hide out. Now
Pat has to decide what's more important; does she want to help these kids, or does she want to hide out?

Short story, 3.6k words.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06...

No Ill Wind

A war-widow, Ginger has lost everything except her son Calvin and a cranky Ford Ranger. Then on a dark and stormy night, her SUV shudders to a halt in the driveway of an elderly couple.

Though all seems hopeless at the moment, Ginger gets first-hand experience with the proverb: "It's an ill wind indeed that doesn't blow somebody something good."

Short Story 4k words.

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