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The Short Story Podcast

Livi Michael, novelist and short story writer from Manchester, England and Sonya Moor, short story writer and translator, from Paris, France discuss the short stories that inspire and move them to think differently about the short story form.

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‘The Children Stay’ is a short story about a young wife who takes the role of Eurydice in an amateur theatrical production, with life-changing consequences.
Munro, Alice, ‘The Children Stay’ collected in The Love of a Good Woman (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998).

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