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Can anyone recommend a really good short story collection please? Preferably thriller/suspense/horror or sci-fi?? 🤔

Since I got so behind on everything, I decided to send my #shortstoryswap package straight from Amazon. Be on the lookout @BookNAround for 2 separate packages (I have no idea why they do it that way!). I‘m sorry for having to do it like this but I didn‘t want it to be late. I hope you like it!

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I forgot to post that I sent out my #shortstoryswap package out! @JenlovesJT47 it should be there by Monday!

And here I thought my time off work would be relaxing 😓 since I got back from Liverpool it's been non-stop!
On the plus side, my short story swap has been posted today and I got home to find my package had arrived 😄😁
#ShortStorySwap @CSeydel ❤🧡💛

My #ShortStorySwap box arrived; can‘t wait to open it next month! Thanks you @Ddzmini 😘

AaaaaaaaaHhhhhhhh!!!!! #BookMail I can't open. Argh! Going to have to have my husband hide this from me!
😵🤪😳😱😬😲🙃😜
@Elle_Skeldon @CSeydel
#ShortStorySwap

A view of South Table Mountain from the Golden Post Office, where I just mailed off my #shortstoryswap. Hope it reaches Malaysia by July 11th. 🤞🤞
@CSeydel

Signed up for the #ShortStorySwap

Sign up close: June 7
Open date: July 11
Budget: $20

Follow @CSeydel for the sign up form!

There is a short story month?! 😶
Link to the recommendations - https://bit.ly/2IG7bvT

Finished book #365 of 2017 and logged it into Goodreads. Since I turned 30 this month, I can identify with a lot of the writers here. I can't wait to see them grow in their journeys as writers - I enjoyed their short stories here.
Sadly this book is from an indie press and isn't logged in Litsy, so I can't formally review it via their app. It was good though!

Short stories delivered to my inbox? Yes, please. http://theseasonofstories.com/
“This year, Season of Stories is featuring hand-picked short stories from acclaimed authors such as…Lee Child, James McBride, Denis Johnson, and Aimee Bender. Each week, you'll get a new short story delivered to your inbox in four installments…just the right amount to read while commuting, waiting in line, or during your lunch break.”

Here are the top five for July! Cast your vote!

https://surveyplanet.com/5945d8adf09d543e1d50028a

We had 17 nominations for July's book - A Short Story Collection. Use link below to rank each book from 1-5 with one being the book you least want to read and 5 the book you most want to read. Descriptions of the books are included in the survey AND on our website if you want to check out the books before voting.

SURVEY
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NOMINATIONS INFO
http://kulikrachel.wixsite.com/litsybookclub/nominations

We hope you are enjoying this month's book - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Live discussion will be this Sunday @ 5pm ET.

It's time to pick our July book. The theme is "A Collection of Short Stories." Complete rules are posted above ?? but remember that it must be 450 pages or less and at least three months old. To nominate tag the book in the comments below.

We hope you are having a wonderful summer!

Three short stories that I read today that aren't in the Litsy database. I get a lot of good ebooks from instafreebie.

The 1st tale in SHORT STORIES: 5 DECADES is "The 80-Yard Run," a masterpiece about the tragedy of living an unexamined life. And yet there are works just as good throughout this beast of a book. He lost nothing off his fastball in 50 years! #2015top5