Scott Holleran
Author, choreographer. Subscribe to my press and podcasting: https://t.co/H2A8I2uAhw fiction: https://t.co/I6Q8GwdpGu
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2 weeks ago |
scottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran
After attending my dearest friend’s 90th birthday party, I learned that screenwriter and director Robert Benton died on Mother’s Day at the age of 92. Today’s news is so shallow, flimsy, compartmentalized and devoid of what matters that news of his death had escaped my notice. This obituary skims the surface. I’ll write with greater clarity and purpose in the future. I met, knew and worked with Robert Benton, who became an admirer of my fiction writing.
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3 weeks ago |
scottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran
Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss, (2005, Scribner) by David Kessler and death and dying pioneer Elisabeth Kübler-Ross—the co-author’s last book before she died—packs power and insight into a cogent book. Just because this is not easy reading, and I write this as one in grief who grieves for a lost loved one, doesn’t mean it’s not essential to read. The book is packed with wisdom.
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4 weeks ago |
scottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran
The first American pope was elected this week by cardinals at the Vatican in Rome. Chicago priest Robert Prevost also became the world’s first pope born in Chicago. Pope Leo the 14th is 69 years old. Having recently written a short story (“Sesame Flanagan”) which debuted in Classic Chicago magazine in which the title character appeals to the pope for justice—and is ex-communicated—I appreciate the irony.
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1 month ago |
shortstoriesbyscottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran
Woman is the focus of my spring trilogy for Classic Chicago magazine. These three stories center upon characters that drive the plot. In “Deal With God,” a woman who is in love with her husband during dystopian conflict—he’s a top soldier who’s defying the state in an explosive standoff—runs toward him until she is downed with a single gunshot fired by her husband. This is how the story begins. Her private pact with the one she loves forms the essence of this love story between a man and a woman.
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1 month ago |
shortstoriesbyscottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran
Classic Chicago debuts “Sesame Flanagan” by Scott HolleranListen to this episode for the author’s reading of “Sesame Flanagan,” which debuted in the April 27, 2025 edition of Classic Chicago magazine (read the story here).
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My romantic short story, “His, Hers and Us,” was published in an anthology a year ago. The light romantic fantasy about a husband and wife whose bodies switch appeared in the literary collection “Flirtations” by Free Spirit Publishers. Subscribe to preview, read and listen to https://t.co/WlR52CkrIS
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