Silent Night

Authors

  • Karen Brown University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

short story, disappearance, memory, Connecticut, female friendship, small-town life

Abstract

In this short story, a woman learns that Carol, a childhood friend from her Connecticut hometown, has disappeared at fifty, and the news brings back her own youth, including a company Christmas party with a gas-station boyfriend.

Author Biography

  • Karen Brown, University of South Florida

    Karen Brown is the author of two novels: The Clairvoyants and The Longings of Wayward Girls, and two short story collections: Little Sinners and Other Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the John Gardner Book Award, and Pins and Needles: Stories, recipient of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and many literary journals. She teaches creative writing at the University of South Florida.

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Published

2019-10-10

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Brown, Karen. “Silent Night”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, pp. 239–251, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/702.