"This work grew out of my experience as a volunteer in a group of evening soup kitchens known as the Center City Soup Kitchens.... The main body of work consists of a series of interviews with some of the guests.... My focus is on the individuals - w...
A seemingly peaceful village at the edge of Oxford seethes with the unspoken tensions and frustrations of a group of neighbors. A disparate group of women including a visiting American professor's wife, a school headmistress, a young recluse, a ha...
Silver Shrew asks Lady Silver Shrew the question: "What am I made of?" As Lady Silver Shrew starts to explain, Silver Shrew gets an inkling that he is made of special things for special purposes....
A wandering scallywag, sandwich-loving crab schmoozes his friends into giving him their sandwiches. They aren’t keen at all, so he tricks them, snaffles their sandwiches, and skedaddles off. But he soon gets his comeuppance. Revenge is best served ...
The short stories in Helen Hudson's "Death of a Mother-in-Law" present characters struggling to connect-from a son reckoning with the legacy of his deceased mother, to a woman in a retirement community trying to win over the woman who cleans...
Extreme Remedies and Other Stories collects short stories from Helen Hudson's long writing career along with autobiographical pieces that reveal how the concerns in her fiction intertwine with the concerns of her life. The characters in these...