Constance Bell Lindgreen

Gascony Writers Anthology 2016

A battered brown suitcase, the dissolution of a marriage, a final bit of fireworks .

"A Case in Point" received a Special Mention in the 2017 Pushcart Size XLII "Best of the Small Presses.

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Selected Works

Fiction

Kaleidoscope: Short works from the Crossroads Writers Club of Fontainebleau

Crossroads Writers Club members hail from eleven countries. Stories, memoirs, and poems set in Jamaica, France, Pakistan, India, St. Kitts, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, England, the Netherlands, and the United States touch on themes both classic and contemporary. Religious tolerance, passion versus piety, the gritty reality of black lives, immigrants building new lives mix with reflections on aging, and the joys and perils of early love.

Blue Fountain: Short stories by the Crossroads Writers Club of Fontainebleau

Crossroads Writers Club's first anthology. Stories: Equilibrium, and Nine Minutes in the Metro, capture moments in France. Novella: The Thirteen-Hour Man finds a Japanese salaryman at a turning-point.

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Reviews:
- "I particularly liked Nine Minutes in the Metro, especially the passage about adolescence when everything seems possible but is at the same time beyond control."

- "I found Equilibrium very subtle and thought-provoking. And very contemporary."

- "I liked your story, The Thirteen Hour Man, very much. I'm Japanese and I don't know how you managed to understand us and write about us so well. Yoshi is a remarkable man."

- "Equilibrium made its point almost subtly, but the more I thought about it, the bigger the hammer became. Really well done. The tension in Nine MInutes in the Metro was equally subtle, really drew me in, and with a great ending.

- The Thirteen-Hour Man was my favorite. An incredible job of showing us who Yoshi was. He's got superpowers he doesn't know he has. I also loved how many years the story covered so effortlessly, I don't feel like I missed a minute of his life even though I'd just been given tiny slivers of it. I'd know him if I passed him on the street."

Creative Writing Institute’s LOST! - A Themed Anthology