Collected Stories

The 19 short stories in this collection by award-winning author Barbara Lockhart are set in the small towns and fields that stretch across the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the land between the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean where evidence of long history and present-day struggles abounds. In this slice of rural America, there can be seen and appreciated a sense of the raw humanity of neighbors and strangers alike, as their choices and actions reverberate over days, years, and generations.

A native of New York City, Barbara Lockhart lives on a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  She is the recipient of two Individual Artist Awards in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council for her short stories and her first novel, Requiem for a Summer Cottage as well as a silver medal from the Independent Book Publishers Awards for her historical novel, Elizabeth’s Field.  She has authored and co-authored four children’s books and a nationwide program for the teaching of children’s literature, Read to me, Talk with me.  Her short stories have appeared in such venues as Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review and Pleiades.