The Best of CafeLit 14

 

This year, one of our experienced editors, Amanda Jones, selected the stories. We aimed to find between 3000 and 4000 words for each month. Sometimes we had one long story, other times several shorter ones. As with the e-zine for these, we look for a combination of shorter and longer stories, darker and more humorous ones, a few uplifting tales, and others that make you think, and we also like to showcase a variety of authors, including old friends and newcomers.

Each story in this little volume is the right length and quality for enjoying as you sip the assigned drink in your favourite Creative Café. You need never feel alone again in a café. So what’s the mood today? Espresso? Earl Grey tea? Hot chocolate with marshmallows? You'll find most drinks in our drinks index.

 

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Contributors: 

Katherine Abbott, Justin Aylward, Michael Barrington, Stephen Bridger, Lynn Clement, Niall  Crowley, Kate Durant, Steve Gerson, Elsie Glassman, Monika Goertzen Hertlein, Sandra Horn, Claire Jaggard, Gill James, Maria Kinnersley, Olaf Laaman, Mike Lee, Henry Lewi, Peter Lingard, Clare Martin, Madelein McDonald, Mia McNamara, Rob Molan, Jane Mooney, Linda Morse, Dana G Nadeau, Hannah Retallick, Judith Skilleter,Sally Storr, Laura Sukonik, Rick Vick,Frank Zahn,

 

At Play and Other Stories by Amita Basu

 

Illness and violence, fair-weather friends and dysfunctional families, trauma and rapid cultural shifts – girls and women in contemporary India deal with the spectrum of life’s challenges and rewards.

These fifteen  stories feature Indian women – and, occasionally, nonhuman females – as they grapple with family and friendship, miscarriages and runaway children, rapid sociocultural shifts, love and sex, work and ambition, physical and mental illness, aging and coming of age, and the struggle to make a living. Several stories feature working-class characters and examine how class shapes our psychological reality. 

 

Amita Basu’s At Play and Other Stories examines the struggles and joys of life for women and girls in contemporary India. 

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And So I Took Their Eye by Ben C. Davies

 

The discovery of a body on the black-sand beaches of Guatemala sparks a chain of events that ripple across the globe.

From an Italian tailor crushed under the weight of his father’s legacy to a mother challenging local snobbery on the cricket fields of England, a vengeful Bolivian priest chasing Che Guevara’s ghost, to a Bay Area therapist blind to his own advice, the lives of a seemingly unconnected group of strangers become fatefully entangled in murder, arson, betrayal, and love. These stories examine abuses of power in a world fractured by inequalities. As their characters confront brutal truths, morality blurs, forcing them to question the meaning of belonging and the lengths they’ll go to carve out their place in an unforgiving world.

Guided by the ancient creed of ‘an eye for an eye’, Ben C. Davies’ And So I Took Their Eye is a gripping collection of interlinked stories exploring what happens when justice is taken into your own hands—and ultimately, what it means to be human.

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Past and Present by Rosemary Johnson

 

We need to know about the past in order to make sense of the present.

We do this best when we laugh about it. Past and Present is a collection of twenty-one bite-sized short stories. We wander from Biblical times to the present day and visit many times and places on the way.

This collection from prolific short-story writer Rosemary Johnson will make you laugh and cry.

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