This is a reading club based on short stories written in my 3,000-word Creative Writing Bootcamp. The stories deserve to be discussed - and the authors will be there to discuss them with you! ❤️

The stories are amazing. They make you think. They make you ask questions. They make you want to discuss them. So you'll do just that:
- read a story;
- discuss it;
- ask your questions and get your answers from the writers themselves!

The writers will be joining the sessions, so you'll be able to ask them not only about their stories and stylistic devices, but also about their writing process. How cool is that? (Very! How often do you get a chance to discuss a story with the author?!)

📅 Winter 2025: Sunday, 12:00 pm Moscow time, on Zoom, starting on 12 January.

Here are the featured stories:

1. Irina Lutsenko
“Two lost souls” – a story about three lonely people looking for love as best they can

2. Alena Nikitina
“Where the house used to be…” – an auto fiction story with a flair of mystery about the connections we make with places

3. Evgenia Karabatova
“Together be like” – conversations about ups and downs in life of one beautifully messy couple

4. Elizaveta Zanozina
"Not Everything Is About Love” – a poignant tale of real partnership

5. Veronika Shirobokova
“A Purrfect Catastrophe” – a story about a cat who finds home

And the wonderful host this season is Irina Kireeva – an avid reader and a host of several book clubs, in-person and online, in English and in Russian. https://t.me/life_insideout ❤️

💌 The project is free. To join, message me @iraluts with a creative ending to this sentence: "Reading a short story is like ... ." By joining, you commit to reading and discussing the stories meaningfully. Please, no joining "just to look."