My Deal Me In deck gave me a heart this week, so I got to read a story by Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt. Alicia is the author of PRIDE’S CHILDREN: PURGATORY, one of my all-time favorite books. Her short stories, posted generously on her blog, are…

My Deal Me In short story reading challenge deck gave me clubs again this week, so I got to read another Chekhov story. This was also about a child, and was only marginally ghastly. Runaway by Anton Chekhov A child is taken a long way…

My Deal Me In short story reading challenge turned up clubs, which means Chekhov. For once, I read a Chekhov story about children that didn’t make me want to poke my eyes out. He can write the saddest, ghastliest stories about children! But not this…