Discuss a different short story every month with a variety of different authors both current and classics. Shorts & Sweets meets at the Fairmount Branch every second Monday of the month at 10:00am. Copies of the story can be picked up at the Fairmount Information Services desk up to a month before the meeting.

The January 12 story is “Innocence” by Rose Wilder Lane (1922)

February 9 “Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone” by James Baldwin (1967)

March 9 “Irish Girl” from the collection “Irish Girl” by Tim Johnston (2009)

April 13 “The Angel of the Odd” by Edgar Allan Poe (1844)

May 11 “The Conversion of the Jews” by Philip Roth (1958)

June 8 “Unassigned Territory” by Stephanie Powell Watts (2006)

July 13 “Seeds” by Sherwood Anderson (1918)

August 10 “Stand by Me” by Wendell Berry (2010)

September 14 “The Man of the Family” by Ruth Suckow from the December 1926 issue of The American Mercury

October 12 "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury (1950)

November 9 “Exit Zero” by Marie-Helene Bertino (2025)

December 14 “A Kidnapped Santa Claus” by L. Frank Baum (1904)