The Future is Now

April 26, 2018 · by Linda Strange · in Mexico, Syria, USA

If you’d asked me a few years ago, only a few, whether or not I ever read dystopian fiction, I…

2017: Brace For Impact

January 1, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in England, Finland, France, Germany, USA

At the beginning of the Second World War in Europe, there was a period of time, eight months and one…

Where You Can Put Your Putin

September 18, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in Russia, USA

No one could love Russia more than I do. You have to love a country where the cabbie taking you home…

A Little History

July 31, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in England, Germany, USA

They say if you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it and this certainly seems to be what’s…

Lists

December 31, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in France, Germany, Syria, USA

As another year draws to its close and the next one edges near, there seems to be in both the…

Gimme Shelter

April 15, 2013 · by Linda Strange · in South Korea

The sign is still there on the side of the school. It has a piece missing from the bottom left…

Washington in Botswana

August 29, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Finland

What do you think would happen if someone produced a film about George Washington filmed in Botswana with a local…

Carcassonne: Land of the Cathars

August 1, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in France

One summer when I was about ten years old, my mother went to the library to get some novels for…

October/November 2024

One of the short stories in my Island Girl series, Graduation Day, has been published in the 2024 Connecticut Literary Anthology in conjunction with Woodhall Press. Unfortunately, there is no online link to the story, but if you would like to hear me reading excerpts from my story, you can RSVP here for the online reading on Wednesday November 13th at 6:30 pm.

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.

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