Linda Griffin

Short Stories

My unpublished story "The Axe" is a finalist in the Hooked on a Book Competition. Only the first 500 words or less are submitted to judge how well the beginning hooks the reader.

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First Date, June 5, 1968

Click the title to read this story, published in the Adirondack Review, Fall 2021

All the Bells and Whistles

Click on title to read this low-key horror story, published in Toasted Cheese 21:2, June 2021.

All I Asked

Click on title to read this short short story, published in Current Accounts, Issue 38, 2020.

Rumpelstiltskin

Click on title to read this story, published in Eclectica April/May 2018

Warning: This one is not for the faint of heart. Reader discretion advised.

Starbucks

Click on title to read this novella, published in Eclectica, April/May 2015.

On the Surface

Click on title to read this science fiction story, published in The Captive and the Dead anthology, 2015

In Print

"The Perfect Crime," forthcoming in Willow Review, Spring 2023

"Jingle Belle" in The Avalon Literary Review, Fall 2022

"Gramps" in Nebo, Summer 2021

"Stalking Carly Simon" in The Main Street Rag, Fall 2020

"Weed" in Thema Literary Journal, Summer 2020: Clumsy Gardener Issue

"Scraps" in Louisiana Literature 37/1: Special Prose Issue

"Christopher Reisner" in Australia Burns

"What If I Did This?" in The Avalon Literary Review, Fall 2019

"Bequest" in 34th Parallel. Issue 59 Honorable mention in the Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction contest

"Arizona Bear Crossing" in I-70 Review, Summer/Fall 2017

"Brakes" in The Nassau Review, 2017, reprinted in Nebo, Fall 2019

"I Dreamed I Was Arlen Spencer" in Verandah 32 ebook edition

"Vacation Hold" in Thema, Autumn 2017: Missing Letters Issue Honorable mention in the Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction contest

"Soldiers in the Garden" in Orbis #178, reprinted in The Storyteller, January/February/March 2017

"Regrets Only" in The Binnacle, Spring 2015

"When Carol Left Me" in Short Story America Anthology, Vol 2. Previously published in San Diego Writers Monthly, December 2000

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Short Story America, Vol. 2

Books

Reluctant Hearts

This collection of four contemporary romances will be published by the Wild Rose Press on April 24, 2023.

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Bridges

Available in e-book and paperback.

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Bridges

Linda Griffin

Books

Reluctant Hearts

Bridges

Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking

Guilty Knowledge

The Rebound Effect

Seventeen Days

Stonebridge

Selected Works

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