Short Story Wednesday: Books from the Book Sale

Since I already own so many short story collections and anthologies, not to mention all my husband's short story books, I always plan to avoid those books at the Planned Parenthood book sale. This weekend, on the second day I visited, I got stuck in front of the table of short story collections and bought a lot more of them than I should have.Below are three of my new short story books. None of them are very long, which is a good thing. Walk the Blue Fields by Claire KeeganClaire Keegan is an Irish writer who has gotten a lot of attention (and awards) for her novels and short story books in the last few years. I have some of her books in eBook format, but have not yet read any of them. So I picked up a paperback edition of her second book of short stories. From the back of the book: "Walk the Blue Fields is an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in modern-day Ireland."166 pages, 7 stories.Seasonal Work by Laura LippmanLaura Lippman is a well-known…