Short Stories

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.   We’re reading the most original and classic American psychological short story thriller of all, Edgar Allan Poe”s “The Tell-Tale Heart. Short story discussion group at OLLI is guaranteed to get weird! Style: Edgar...

In our OLLI short story group this Thursday we are reading a less-known tale by the nineteenth century master Nathaniel Hawthorne. Maybe you had to read Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter in high school. “Wives of the Dead” was presumably written about 1829 when Hawthorne was twenty-five years old and had recently...

One of our oldest American ghost stories The short story discussion group at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Eugene is reading the story “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” by William Austin (1778-1841) for discussion on Thursday, June 7th, 2018.  “The time to which Rugg’s career dates back is that...