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For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) March 26, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "Paladin" by Terry Sanville. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/paladin/ In a small California community upset by wildfires and poverty, a four-legged hero comes to a family’s rescue in this heartwarming story by Terry Sanville. Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) March 19, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "Chasing Par" by Terry Sanville. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/02/chasing-par/ They became friends over golf, which means when Stan lost one, he lost both. Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) March 12, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker. https://tinyurl.com/yzhmcjxy Sarah Pinsker is the author of over fifty works of short fiction, two novels, and one collection. Her work has won three Nebula Awards (Best Novel, A Song For A New Day; Best Novelette, "Our Lady of the Open Road," Best Novelette, "Two Truths And A Lie"), a Hugo Award, the Philip K **** Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and been nominated for numerous Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fiction has been published in magazines including Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Uncanny and in numerous anthologies and year's bests. Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) March 05, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance" by Bret Harte. https://tinyurl.com/zsusjchp Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American author and poet, who worked in a number of different professional capacities including miner, teacher, messenger and journalist before turning to full time writing in 1871. Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. We'll post one as soon as possible. mIRC Users: /server -mchat3.koach.com:6667-j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) February 26, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Pendulum" by Ray Bradbury. https://tinyurl.com/97d86swc Most of Bradbury's work is not in the public domain, but American Literature is happy to carry the few short stories that are. We feature his work in our collection of Dystopian Stories and Science Fiction Study Guide. Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

I'm happy you find it helpful. I'll let you know if I see anything like that.

For comments, suggestions or to be removed from our mailings, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) February 19, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "A Modern Lear" by Jane Addams. https://tinyurl.com/3t6cd6ah/ Jane Addams was a political and social reformer, anti-war activist, feminist, author, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (1860–1935) Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

I'm not sure what you mean, John.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) February 05, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "Candle" by Jodie Daviss. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/01/candle/ SEP's second runner-up in the 2022 Great American Fiction Contest: "An unexpected detour on Christmas Eve brings two strangers together, transforming their lives in unexpected ways." Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

Nice, Tony

If I read more slowly, I'd fall asleep.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) January 29, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier" by Washington Irving. https://tinyurl.com/suwcawhw Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) January 22, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. https://tinyurl.com/shxshtfd Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) January 08, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Cactus" by O. Henry. https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-cactus "The garments of his soul must have appeared sorry and threadbare. Vanity and conceit? These were the joints in his armor. And how free from either she had always been--But why--" Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/56xcczxk mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) January 08, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "No Forwarding Address" by Laura Jarosz. https://tinyurl.com/yckfwccv A package arrives at your house, but you didn’t order anything. What happens next? Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/56xcczxk mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

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For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) December 18, 2021 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True" by Louisa May Alcott. https://tinyurl.com/2yp654hj Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner Please note that we will not have a story night on Christmas Day or New Year's Day. That's Saturday, December 25th here in the US, Sunday, December 26th, or Boxing Day in Australia and the UK, and January 01 in the US and January 02 in Australia and the UK, I'm not sure about other diverse locales. So, this will be our last chat for 2021, our next story night will be January 08, 2022. Be advised that the room will be open if anyone wishes to drop in and visit (This is true every day as well). Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year. If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.koach.com/readers_corner mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) December 11, 2021 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame. https://americanliterature.com/author/kenneth-grahame/fairy-tale/the-reluctant-dragon The Reluctant Dragon is one of our Favorite Fairy Tales, published in Grahame's collection, Dream Days in 1902, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. The boy discovers he and the dragon are both struggling poets, and tries to convince Saint George that there's no sense in slaying a good dragon. Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner Please note that we have added a link to the channel for kiwi IRC (The Webchat we use on our website) as well as Mibbit, use whichever one you're most comfortable with. If you have any problems or questions, just email me at the email link above. Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.koach.com/readers_corner mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) December 04, 2021 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. https://americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierce/short-story/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions, just email me, alpinetx79830@gmail.com Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.koach.com/readers_corner mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

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For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) November 27, 2021 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "Party Favors" by Christi Krug. Should Daphne be dropped as maid of honor just because she died? https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/10/party-favors/ Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner Please note that we have added a link to the channel for kiwi IRC (The Webchat we use on our website) as well as Mibbit, use whichever one you're most comfortable with. If you have any problems or questions, just email me at the email link above. Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.koach.com/readers_corner mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.