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My Cousin in California

My Cousin in California

December 2, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, USA

On November 9th, two weeks after my cousin in Pittsburgh, in her post-shooting gloom, bowed out of all social media,…

My Cousin in Pittsburgh

My Cousin in Pittsburgh

November 4, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in USA

On October 29th, two days after a gunman burst into a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa. and shot eleven people dead,…

Merit Pay, Anyone?

Merit Pay, Anyone?

March 3, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in USA

I wasn’t going to weigh in on this because, well, everyone else has, and what am I going to say…

A Cruel June

A Cruel June

June 17, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

It goes on. Last Sunday morning we woke up to read about yet another mentally ill individual who went out…

Living in America

Living in America

December 14, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in USA

There are many things I could write about as the dark and confusing year of 2015 draws to its close,…

The Pip Squeak Sikh

The Pip Squeak Sikh

August 15, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in USA

Several years ago, on the first day of school, a young child was delivered by their mother to the class…

Horror in Hyvinkää

Horror in Hyvinkää

May 30, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Uncategorized

There was a time nearly a hundred years ago when Finns did shoot at other Finns. Depending on who you…

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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.

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