Things That Disappear

October 22, 2023 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Uncategorized, USA

The pale yellow “favorite blanket” that you had as a child. The hair dryer that covered your head like a…

Socialism in America?

May 11, 2019 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, Sweden, USA

That’s right, you heard me, SOCIALISM. It seems that these days some people actually stand up and announce that they…

Where We Come From

June 25, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, Hungary, Moravia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, USA

A family history is a collection of stories, stories told and retold and made old not so much by the…

Stockholm’s Burning

May 28, 2013 · by Linda Strange · in Sweden

Stockholm’s burning. That city I went to 33 years ago as an exchange student in the summer of 1980, that…

Independence Days

July 4, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, Russia, Sweden, USA

Countries really don’t leave each other alone, do they? They are always bothering each other, invading, claiming sovereignty, imposing annoying…

Summer Solstice

June 27, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, Sweden, USA

What do you mean the summer’s over? Why it just started didn’t it? I only got out of school last…

April 2024

Check out my essay about the tragic death of the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and the repression of independent voices in present day Russia that increasingly mirrors the repression of the Stalin dictatorship. You can read it in Pangyrus Literary Magazine.

Check out my latest short story Island Girls in Marrow Magazine about young girls of color growing up in a neighborhood that isn’t particularly kind to them.

January 2023

I am delighted to announce that Glass Mountain Literary Magazine has published my short story Retention in their current issue. You can read the story here.

September 2022

Watch a video of me reading a live version of a blog about the Berlin Wall, The Wall I Knew.

July 2022

Watch a video of me reading a live version of my blog, The Last of the Best.

May 2022

I’m excited to announce three pieces of my writing have recently been published. What Ever Happened to Igor, an essay in Pangyrus, is about a study trip I took to Ukraine in 1985 with a group of Finns and Swedes. Igor was a young Ukrainian-Swedish man from Stockholm who was going to meet his father in Kyiv, a father he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Want to watch a video of me reading the essay? Click here. Will They Make it Home Again?, another essay in Pangyrus, explores the relationship between the images of World War Two childhood evacuations recorded in select works of European literature and the images of evacuation we now see on our television screens from Ukraine. Click here to watch the video.

Finally, The Longest Day, is a short story published in the 2022 Freshwater Literary Journal. It details the experience of a young non-English speaking Cape Verdean girl, Gee, on her first day in an American inner-city school. It is an account of Gee’s first encounter with her new ESL teacher and the safe space this teacher creates for Gee to express her true emotions. Watch a You Tube video of me speaking with Georbina DaRosa, the real-life inspiration for my story.