{"id":7049240,"date":"2026-08-27T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/short-story-september-is-coming-up-annabookbel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:47:24","slug":"short-story-september-is-coming-up-annabookbel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240","title":{"rendered":"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-32498\">\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img width=\"481\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg?fit=481%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg?w=481&amp;ssl=1 481w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg?resize=300%2C312&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>It\u2019ll soon be another month, and there\u2019s another tag for it now as Rebecca of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookishbeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bookish Beck<\/a> has taken over as host of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookishbeck.com\/2026\/08\/17\/short-story-september-is-coming-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Short Story September<\/strong><\/a>. It\u2019s also RIP XXI (Readers Imbibing Peril) in September\/October.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but I struggle to read whole books of short stories by one author. I find they\u2019re often just over too quickly, then it\u2019s read and repeat for the next story. I could intersperse a book of short stories with other reads, but I fear it\u2019d get put to the side and forgotten as I\u2019m not good at reading several books at the same time.  However, I\u2019ve come up with a plan\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember back in 1995 when Penguin was celebrating its 60th birthday, they published several sets of \u2018Penguin 60s\u2019 \u2013 little paperbacks of short stories, novellas and essays. There was the orange-spined set, the black-spine classics set, plus a smaller children\u2019s set. I bought both main sets, and they\u2019ve languished in a cupboard ever since. The other day, I came across one of the classics selection that had got separated from the rest \u2013 and it was 3 Turgenev short stories. This inspired me to dig out some others for Short Story September and bearing RIP in mind too. Being extracted from collections, means I can read the whole lot in one go, and not have to worry about forgetting to finish them. Perfect\u2026 the initial ones I\u2019ve picked out are:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PXL_20260827_093040687.MP_.jpg?resize=538%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32500\" style=\"width:467px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PXL_20260827_093040687.MP_.jpg?w=538&amp;ssl=1 538w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annabookbel.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PXL_20260827_093040687.MP_.jpg?resize=287%2C400&amp;ssl=1 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Ivan Turgenev<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Three Sketches from \u2018A Hunter\u2019s Album\u2019. <\/strong>(3 from 25, first published in 1852). <\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Patricia Highsmith<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Little Tales of Misogyny<\/em> (17 really short stories of \u2018simmering malice\u2019, most just 3 or so small pages, 1977)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Muriel Spark <\/strong>\u2013 <em>The Portobello Road and Other Stories<\/em> (4 in total, 1938-61)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Poppy Z Brite<\/strong> \u2013 <em>His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood <\/em>(4 stories of \u2018contemporary horror\u2019 from her collection 1994 <em>Swamp Foetus<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to get going on these. Are you joining in this tag?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-96339042-32498-6a905c0b5aa4e\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.0#blog_id=96339042&amp;post_id=32498&amp;origin=annabookbel.net&amp;obj_id=96339042-32498-6a905c0b5aa4e&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-96339042-32498-6a905c0b5aa4e\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019ll soon be another month, and there\u2019s another tag for it now as Rebecca of Bookish Beck has taken over as host of Short Story September. It\u2019s also RIP XXI (Readers Imbibing Peril) in September\/October. I don\u2019t know about you, but I struggle to read whole books of short stories by one author. I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7049241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[3915,4641,4968,296,3972],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7049240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-annabookbel","tag-coming","tag-september","tag-short","tag-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019ll soon be another month, and there\u2019s another tag for it now as Rebecca of Bookish Beck has taken over as host of Short Story September. It\u2019s also RIP XXI (Readers Imbibing Peril) in September\/October. I don\u2019t know about you, but I struggle to read whole books of short stories by one author. I find [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-27T15:47:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"481\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\"},\"headline\":\"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-27T15:47:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240\"},\"wordCount\":340,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AnnaBookBel\",\"Coming\",\"September\",\"Short\",\"story\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Books\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240\",\"name\":\"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel - Som2ny Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-27T15:47:24+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg\",\"width\":481,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"description\":\"Daily Deals\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":86,\"caption\":\"Som2ny Network\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel - Som2ny Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel - Som2ny Network","og_description":"It\u2019ll soon be another month, and there\u2019s another tag for it now as Rebecca of Bookish Beck has taken over as host of Short Story September. It\u2019s also RIP XXI (Readers Imbibing Peril) in September\/October. I don\u2019t know about you, but I struggle to read whole books of short stories by one author. I find [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240","og_site_name":"Som2ny Network","article_published_time":"2026-08-27T15:47:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":481,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371"},"headline":"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel","datePublished":"2026-08-27T15:47:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240"},"wordCount":340,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg","keywords":["AnnaBookBel","Coming","September","Short","story"],"articleSection":["Books"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240","name":"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel - Som2ny Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg","datePublished":"2026-08-27T15:47:24+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/short-story-september-badge-2026.jpg","width":481,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049240#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Short Story September is coming up\u2026 \u2013 AnnaBookBel"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","name":"Som2ny Network","description":"Daily Deals","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization","name":"Som2ny Network","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","width":300,"height":86,"caption":"Som2ny Network"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/fivemor.com"],"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7049240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7049241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7049240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7049240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7049240"},{"taxonomy":"dealstore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdealstore&post=7049240"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fofferexpiration&post=7049240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}