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From the author of On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness, Stories from My Memory-Shelf is the story of my life told in short fiction and essays. Features author commentary on the real-life events that inspired the stories.

"Girl in Pink, Seeing Red"Never mess with a little girl's best friend - even if she is dressed all in pink.

"Two Fathers""He is clasping my hand and leading me down the street to the local bar; propping me up on a barstool so all his friends can see, can joke with me and about me while I twirl about on the red vinyl, tall and proud to be out with Daddy."

"Yellow Wagon"A young girl walks to school alone - is she being stalked?

"The Second Grade"Because everything's a first when you're in the second grade.

"Twilight""She was strong, she was beautiful, she was graceful. Even if it was only in twilight that it showed."

"Past and Present"" 'It was lucky I forgot my keys, ' her mother was saying. 'I came back and found you lying in a pool of blood.' "

"Haunted""Large for my age, prideful of my tomboyhood, and self-assured in my paranormal incredulity, it was I who braved the deep, I, even, who had relayed the tale of the enigmatic contents of the newspaper room following my first venture there, and inadvertently set the neighborhood to wondering what horrors might be lurking at its bottom."

"Goat"" 'What's the matter, Sutton?' Mr. Jenkins inquired. 'Schneider get your goat?'There was a momentous silent pause followed by the audible snap of thirty heads whipping around in unison towards the mortified young girl and the shamelessly grinning boy who had yanked on her ponytail until she'd finally shouted at him to quit it."

"Fallen Ideal""I didn't think I wanted to get married. But now I wonder who will take me to the bathroom when I'm too old to stand."

"Deep-Water Girl""Go on, deep-water girl! Keep on lookin' for that deep water! You won't never find it!"

"Rest Stop""He approached her, thumbs tucked into the pockets of his own full-length dungarees, evidently immune to the heat.'Say, that's an expensive trip, ' he observed. 'You, uh - you got enough money to get there?' "

"Found Money""It was something, wasn't it? Finding five dollars. Not a matter of life or death, maybe. Not just yet."

"Heads of the Line""Each job had its own rhythm. Scrape, scrape, scrape. Thunk; thunk; thunk. It was such a persuasive rhythm that sometimes you even forgot that it was a part of the job. Like that unfortunate header from last season..."

"Fog Line""He raised his flashlight and looked her over, as they always did, comparing the image on the out-of-state license to the young woman in the rusty van that pre-dated her by a decade."

"Jackson, Mississippi"Essay on finally understanding how it must feel to be black in a largely white world.

"Baby and Me""Our best friends were having a baby. Inwardly, I groaned."

"Funeral for Charlie""Charlie was dead, and the circumstances were more than a little fishy..."

"Dead in the Water""She hung suspended, gazing up at the sky, the sun, the surface, at the cord entangling her foot. It was too late. She would drown; she would die there beneath the water, ten feet away from the people who loved her."

"Scars""Youth does not have a fair picture of itself... It is only with the perspective of years that we begin to see our lives in patterns, in great sweeping arcs that promise, if we examine them closely, to reveal to us something of ourselves, something of who we were, something of who we have become. Something of who we will become."

Stories from My Memory-Shelf is available in both standard and large print sizes.

What stories are on YOUR memory-shelf?


About the Author:

Lori Schafer is a writer of serious prose and humorous erotica and romance. Her flash fiction, short stories, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online publications, and her first two books were published in November 2014. On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness commemorates Lori's terrifying adolescent experience of her mother's psychosis, while Stories from My Memory-Shelf: Fiction and Essays from My Past is an autobiographical collection featuring stories and essays inspired by other events from Lori's own life. In the summer of 2014, Lori began work on a second memoir, The Long Road Home, during the course of a two-month-long journey across the United States and Canada. She anticipates that it will be ready for publication in 2016.

Lori's first two novels, My Life with Michael: A Novel of Sex, Beer and Middle Age and Just the Three of Us: An Erotic Romantic Comedy for the Commitment-Challenged, were released early in 2015. She is currently at work on a third novel, a sequel to Just the Three of Us. When she isn't writing (which isn't often), Lori enjoys playing ice hockey, attending beer festivals, and spending long afternoons reading at the beach in the sunshine.

For further information on Lori's upcoming projects, please visit her website at http: //lorilschafer.com, where you may subscribe to her newsletter or follow her blog. You are also welcome to email her directly at lorilschafer(at)outlook(dot)com.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781942170006
  • Publisher: Lori Schafer
  • Publisher Imprint: Lori Schafer
  • Edition: Large type / large print edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 218 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1942170009
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Fiction and Essays from My Past
  • Width: 152 mm


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