LONG BEACH PRESS TELEGRAM,
LIFE AND STYLE
MAY 25, 1997

Sally Shore was bored. An actress between roles, she was looking for an outlet. She asked a playwright friend if she had any new works under way. Instead, this writer gave her a short story.

And Shore's "live literary magazine" was born. Shore is the producer and a featured actress in the New Short Fiction Series, a showcase for short stories by fresh new voices. On June 15, the series will premiere "Women Who Make Money and the Men Who Love Them" by Cerritos Donna Hilbert. The 7 p.m. performance will be at Creativity in Santa Monica.

Shore and four other actors will dramatically read three of Hilbert's short stories. "We actors are bringing the writer's work directly to the audience," says Shore. "This approach is simple and strong without all the pyrotechnics of movies or TV getting in the way of the writer's voice."

Presented the third Sunday of each month, the New Short Fiction Series has featured works by authors Alice Blanchard, Deidre Gainor, Paul Karon, Ben Mattlin, Marc Norman, John Fante and Dana Lauren Ramos among others.

"It's been amazing to me how audiences respond to this," says Shore. "Short fiction is enjoying a renaissance. People like the intimacy of the reading as well as the immediacy of the works. The pieces are short, but offer the full experience of longer fiction. People love it."