Substacks recommended by Sharron Bassano

Recommended by Sharron Bassano

Fiction by Bill Adler

Delightful short stories and flash fiction by Bill Adler.

Dynamic Creed: The Sharp Edge of Fiction

By Victor David @ Dynamic Creed

One of a kind evocative creative fiction outside the designs of our times

Switter’s World

Switter’s World is your one stop shop for everything you need to know about crossing off exotic locales from your adventurecation bucket list, seasoned with occasional Something Wonderfuls to ease your disappointment from letting those dumb dreams die.

Switter has lived multiple wild, adventuresome lives. Never disappoints

- Sharron Bassano

Slow Aging and Delay Chronic Disease Development

By William H Bestermann Jr MD

"Your body is the most complex machine you own, but it didn’t come with instructions. I'm writing the Owner's Manual."

Mark Starlin Writes!

A laugh, a smile, or even a tear. It's all here.

Starlin has a goofy, childlike sense of humor, an odd way of looking out at the world, from the ridiculous to the thoughtful. He sits just right with me most of the time!

- Sharron Bassano

Alphabet Soup

By Etgar Keret

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

Ascerbic, witty, angst-ridden, timely and hilarious. I drop every thing else when his posts arrive.

- Sharron Bassano

Writing Wrongs

By Jim J Wilsky

Fiction that has friction. I will post author interviews, classic book recommendations and my own crime short stories. I am also the co-author of a four-book series that is available in print, audio and ebook formats at Amazon and other similar outlets.

Tiny Worlds

By J. Curtis

Flash and short fiction. Also a novel. Who knows what else might appear.

Cactus Flowers

By K.C. Knouse

Short fiction, novel serialization, and observations on writing and life.

Beautiful, Daring, Stupid

By Meg Oolders

A mercurial space for fiction (poetry, humor, essays, podcasts) and honesty from award-winning author, bona fide super-romantic, and critically-acclaimed mother of two, Meg Oolders.

Before I Forget . .

By James Ron

My stories. Most I make up.

James Ron's stories are easy to read, but are definitely not superficial. His topics are often totally new to me. He is so engaging, I stay with him and learn something new. A charming old guy. ( I can say that because I am old too.)

- Sharron Bassano

Between Two Lampposts | Poetry

By C J O'Hare

My personal Substack

CJ O'Hare writes short, straight-forward, accessible fiction with a confident style. His ideas are fresh and evocative. I read "The Kitchen is Hers. The Kitchen is Ours", and was motivated to go into his archive and read every post. See what you think. https://substack.com/@cjohare/p-150795530

- Sharron Bassano

Along the Hudson

By Justin Deming

Original fiction delivered from my home along the Hudson River.

Justin Deming's writing is like the air after a spring rain - fresh, crisp, sweetly fragrant.

- Sharron Bassano

Us AND Them

By Mark VanLaeys

Discovering Connections With Our Neighbors and Beyond

Dear Reader, I'm lost

By Rebecca Holden

Letters from a writer navigating the world with absolutely no sense of direction.

Rebecca writes about family and childhood memories, about nature and life, in a way that brings you in and makes you glad. She is a wonderful artist, both with words and with paint. Her posts are a delight!

- Sharron Bassano

Humor Saves!

By Sheila Moeschen

Where curiosity meets comedy. Topical investigations of an irreverent nature.

Gopher Farm

By Sharon Hudson

Poetry, fiction and memoir coming from Santa Cruz every Sunday. It's free!

Aging Well Newsletter

By Janice Walton

How to prepare for longevity with an 86-year-old retired psychologist as your guide.

Janice Walton's writing is thought-provoking, yet comfortable and comforting. She speaks especially to those of us of ... ahem ... a certain age. We are often left out.

- Sharron Bassano

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

By Terry Freedman

Reflections on literature * Musings on everyday life * Book reviews * Experiments in creative nonfiction writing * Humour

Persona Non Propria

By Clancy Steadwell

Pseudonymous contemporary fiction. Bildungsromans, romance, humor and local color. Essays on themes relating to the fiction.

Ring Around the Basin

By Sue Cauhape

Poetry, stories, and essays about the beauty of the Great Basin, Truckee and Santa Cruz, and Utah. Welcome to Ring Around the Basin.

Dispatches

By Kenneth Mills

... images and essays, journeys near and far

Brilliant water color paintings and moody, somewhat gritty photography. Inspiring.

- Sharron Bassano

A Thousand Fragments

By Matt Inwood

A Thousand Fragments brings together my thoughts on a wide variety of the cultural things which I love: especially books, music and food.

Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

"Just to spite the world, don’t cry! Just to spite the world, only laugh, only laugh!" - Sholom Aleichem. Amen, Brother.

Caution: Nothing is sacred to this man. I admire his irreverence, his profanity. He is absolutely outrageous and NOTHING like me -I adore his complete lack of fear!

- Sharron Bassano

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

STORIES, AFTER EIGHT

By Ben Woestenburg ...STORIES

Read my novellas, & novelettes for FREE; or, Up-Grade and read my serial novels; or listen as I read Classic poetry to you. Sign up to have it delivered to your in-box. Grab a MEMBERSHIP and join me in THE PORTAL CLUB, for readings, chats, and videos.

Encourage Meant

By 'Encourage Meant'

A regular burst of positivity inspired by The Encouragement Manifesto

Starting your day on the right foot with thoughtful, inspiring, and engaging short fiction. Just what we want!

- Sharron Bassano

Tales from the Defrag

By Alexander Ipfelkofer

Fiction at the intersection between humanity and technology, speculative journeys through time interspersed with adventure, mystery, philosophy and the occasional alien. Stay a while and listen.

Ipfelkofer has a surprising wide range of writing styles. Fascinating fiction. Great sense of humor.

- Sharron Bassano

Dans Deliberations

By Daniel O’Donnell

The endless imagination

just mud

It's all about the mud.

Just Write, Right

By Barrie Thomson

A public provocation to compel me to write more

Fiction, mostly.

Short fiction from a seasoned observer of humans.

If I could subscribe to only one Substack writer, it would be Jim Cummings at All Day Long. His prose is utterly fresh and new, with unexpected themes and sentence structures. Jim has a wry, subtle sense of humor and writes authentic, snappy dialog like no other.

- Sharron Bassano

Situation Normal

By Michael Estrin

Stories for people who enjoy humor with a side of humanity and a dash of insight

Smart, hilarious musings from a mind warped just enough. He would fit right in in Santa Cruz.

- Sharron Bassano

Love and Other Fictions

By Bryan Pirolli

Short stories about love among family members, queer love, ruinous love, and love that doesn’t quite exist.

palmisanocj@yahoo.com’s Newsletter

Rambles

The Near Future

By T. D. Wolf

Fiction, poetry and writings of T. Dalton Wolf.

Stories From Nowhere

By Tom Cornfoot

I get these stories, but I have no idea where they come from, see. Then I write them down and send them to you. One every Wednesday. That's it.

Very short, well - written fiction that always has a point, always makes you think. Consistently good content and consistent format.

- Sharron Bassano

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Recommended by Sharron Bassano