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Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2018 (The Saturday Evening Post's Great American Fiction Contest)

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Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2018 (The Saturday Evening Post's Great American Fiction Contest)

Penned By Julia Rocchi
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Temperatures rise at Café Rumba as spicy rhythms heat up the atmosphere in the fast-paced tale about Nancy, a middle-aged divorcée embarking on a salsa adventure. The 2018 winning story, “Open Season at the Café Rumba,” was in part inspired by author Julia Rocchi’s own experience signing up solo for dance classes after college. For nearly 200 years, The Saturday Evening Post has been publishing a who’s who of American authors — Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Louis L’Amour, Jack London, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Tyler, Agatha Christie, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sinclair Lewis, among so many others. This definitive collection of the best short stories from the sixth annual Great American Fiction Contest continues The Saturday Evening Post's mission to support the legacy of the storyteller.

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Julia Rocchi is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Julia Rocchi can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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