Reviewed by Pennell Paugh
June 18, 2024 (San Diego) -- The San Diego Writers & Editors Guild is a nonprofit, member-supported organization dedicated to promoting the writing arts in San Diego. The Guilded Pen has been publishing anthologies of its members’ short stories, essays, and poetry since 2012. The 2023 version, Traversing Life, is the Guild’s best collection of stories so far. I enjoyed every item in the book.
The book contains 24 short stories, 7 poems, and 13 essays. In many stories, the authors share major life events in fiction or in memoir pieces; one tells the life events of a library book; and another writes a fairytale about a frog. The book’s theme “traversing life” is spun, whipped up, and turned into something refreshing, stimulating, thought-provoking, soul-wrenching, or simply fun.
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