Join us for six more Wednesdays for more discussions of short stories, poems, & essays!
We will meet each Wednesday at 12:30 at 12 Rosemont St., All Saints Catholic Church Parish Offices, in the “Upper Room“. Parking is available on Rosemont St. or in the parking lot on Brevator.
UPDATE 4/14!
Due to a leak, we will meet at Mater Christi parish offices, 40 Hopewell St.
Tackle the reading on your own time, and then come on Wednesdays ready to discuss it over a cup of tea. (Snacks to share are welcome, but by no means expected!)
But also, feel free to take the stories and set up your own meetings at a more convenient time and place with other friends and neighbors!
Session X – Easter 2026
- 4/15 (TAX DAY) – Easter Sunday Homily 2025 by Pope Francis
- 4/22 – The Open Window by Saki
- 4/29 – The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared To A Window by Thomas Merton
- 5/6 – The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl
- 5/13 – Dear One Absent This Long While by Lisa Olstein
- 5/20 – Charles by Shirley Jackson
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Session IX – Jan-Feb 2026
- 1/14 – Confessional by Percival Wilde
- 1/21 – A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
- 1/28 – The Kings by Louise Imogen Guiney
- 2/4 – A Retrieved Reformation by O Henry
- 2/11 – Meditations: Book II by Marcus Aurelius
- 2/18 – The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Henry Van Dyke
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Session VIII
- 10/15 – The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
- 10/22 – Song for Autumn by Mary Oliver & Fall, leaves, fall by Emily Bronte
- 10/29 – The Black Heralds by Cesar Vallejo
- 11/5 – The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
- 11/12 – The Fool’s Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill
- 11/19 – The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
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Session VII
- July 9 – On the Role of Literature in Formation by Pope Francis
- July 13 – A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri
- July 26 – I See His Blood Upon the Rose by Joseph M. Punkett & The Gifford Girl by Leonard Feeney, S.J.
- July 30 – The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton
- August 6 – The History of Red by Linda Hogan
- August 13 – The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
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Session VI
- April 23 – Fulton Sheen on Easter by Fulton Sheen
- April 20 – Springtime a la Carte by O. Henry
- May 7 – A Dialogue of Self and Soul by William Butler Yeats
- May 14 – The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick
- May 21 – Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
- May 28 – Tobermory by Saki
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Session V
- October 2 – All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
- October 9 – Tobit from the Hebrew Scriptures
- October 16 – October Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar & An October Garden by Christina Rossetti
- October 23 – Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oats
- October 30 – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
- November 6 – Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer’s Day by Marge Piercy
- November 13 – The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell & In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
- November 20 – Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Readings from Previous Sessions of Tea & Short Reads
Session IV
- April 10 – The Evil Eye by Mary Shelley
- April 17 – When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelo
- April 24 – The Appropriation of Cultures by Percival Everett
- May 1 – The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
- May 8 – The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston
- May 15 – Middle Passage by Robert Hayden
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Session III
- January 3, 2024 – The Light Princess, George MacDonald The Light Princess (text) audio
- January 10 2024 – Selections from Easy Essays, Peter Maurin Works of Mercy Collection – We’ll be reading The Wisdom of Giving, Share Your Wealth, Why Not Be A Beggar?, Municipal Lodgings, Bishop-Shy, Passing the Buck, Hospices, Houses of Hospitality, Servants of the Poor, Scholars and Workers, Social Workers, and Workers, Rich and Poor. (Text only available)
- January 17, 2024 – The Nightingale, Hans Christian Andersen The Nightingale (text) audio
- January 24, 2024 – Patterns, Amy Lowell Patterns (text) audio
- January 31, 2024 – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text) audio
- February 7, 2024 – The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart (text) audio
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Session II
- July 5, 2023 – The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow https://poets.org/poem/village-blacksmith
- July 12, 2023 – On Lying in Bed, G. K. Chesterton http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/On_Lying_In_Bed.html
- July 19, 2023 – The Waste Land, T.S Eliot https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
- July 26, 2023 – The Rich Brother, Tobias Wolff https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1985/6/the-rich-brother
- Aug. 2, 2023 – The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/eng/Wilde-Giant.pdf
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Session I