She was due to start her sentence on 27 April, but filed a last-minute appeal, buying her a little more time at home. Last year Holmes was convicted on four counts of defrauding investors, by pretending that her blood-testing startup, Theranos, was functional when it wasn’t, and given more than 11 years in prison. You remember Elizabeth Holmes, don’t you? Unlike nice, sweet Liz, Elizabeth was a bit of a schemer. She is a devoted mother of two little kids who loves nothing more than family outings to the zoo, walking her dog, and talking to her husband in a very normal voice that is absolutely nothing like the weird baritone her evil alter ego, Elizabeth, affected. The story takes in the themes of loneliness, alienation, and the need for human connection and friendship.M eet Liz Holmes. The story is about a man trying to give up alcohol dependency in a rehabilitation centre, and his attempts to call his estranged wife and current girlfriend, hence the story’s title, ‘Where I’m Calling From’. Let’s conclude this pick of classic friendship stories with a short story by the American writer Raymond Carver (1938-88), originally published in the New Yorker in 1982. Raymond Carver, ‘ Where I’m Calling From’ But Edith and Sabitha’s cruel trick will have terrible ramifications for poor Johanna. Edith convinces Sabitha to forge love letters from Sabitha’s father to Johanna, the unmarried housekeeper for Sabitha. This story, set in Ontario in Canada, focuses on the friendship between Sabitha and Edith.
The unsettling story sees a group of friends discussing how to hang their friend for committing an unnamed offence.Īlice Munro, ‘ Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage’.Īlice Munro (born 1931) is one of the leading contemporary writers of short stories. This short story was first published in his 1976 anthology, Amateurs. Many of his stories are deliberately absurdist, with hilarious but sometimes unnerving results. The American writer Donald Barthelme (1931-89) is sometimes labelled as a ‘postmodernist’ writer (a label he was not entirely comfortable with, but reluctantly accepted) and, occasionally, ‘metafiction’ (a label he was less happy with). Faith narrates the story of the three friends’ visit to see their friend Selena, who is dying, and its aftermath, which sees the three central characters reminiscing about their lives and their friendship together.ĭonald Barthelme, ‘ Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’. Paley (1922-2007) offers us a tale of three female friends, Ann, Susan, and Faith.
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