Short Stories

THE SOOKIE SHORT STORIES AND RELATED
MATERIAL
BY CHARLAINE HARRIS
Writing short stories is not like writing a very short novel. The pacing is
different, the timing is different, and the way you end the story is really different.
At this moment, there are seven Sookie short stories and one novella. They
weren’t published in the order in which they should be read if you’re trying to stick
to Sookie’s chronology. I backtracked and filled in a little as ideas came to me. For
clarity, I’m discussing them in the order in which they fit chronologically between
the books.
By the way, the first five of these stories can now be found in one volume: A
Touch of Dead. Before my publisher put the collection together, you had to buy
separate anthologies to read about Sookie’s adventures. I think that’s a good thing,
because then you get to sample a lot of outstanding stories by other writers, but
there’s no denying it’s convenient to have the one book.
On to the discussion.
Though not the first short story I’d ever written, “Fairy Dust” was the first