{"id":7059536,"date":"2026-09-17T03:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/fiction-hotel-greif-by-susan-mersereau\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:01:53","slug":"fiction-hotel-greif-by-susan-mersereau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7059536","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: &#8220;Hotel Greif&#8221; by Susan Mersereau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SUSAN MERSEREAU<\/strong>\u2019s short stories have appeared in <em>Meridian<\/em>, <em>The Massachu\u00adsetts Review<\/em>, <em>december<\/em>, <em>PRISM inter\u00adnational<\/em>, <em>Riddle Fence<\/em>, <em>filling Station <\/em>and other journals. An earlier story, \u2018The Valley,\u2019 which also features \u00d6tzi the Iceman, won the Short Grain fic\u00adtion contest. She is currently at work on a novel.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" data-id=\"825880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt of the opening of Susan Mersereau's short story &quot;Hotel Greif,&quot; published in EVENT 54\/3.\" class=\"wp-image-825880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan-Mersereau_Hotel-Greif-600x900.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find Susan Mersereau\u2019s complete story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventmagazine.ca\/product\/event-54-3-current-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EVENT 54\/3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                                        <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n                                                    <\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '544480689072765');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\nfbq('track', 'ViewContent');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUSAN MERSEREAU\u2019s short stories have appeared in Meridian, The Massachu\u00adsetts Review, december, PRISM inter\u00adnational, Riddle Fence, filling Station and other journals. 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