Cheever Stories

Miss Nathalie Rogers, aka Nattie, is a telegraph operator in the 1870s. She is nineteen and lives in a boarding hotel, having left her family so that they won't have to...

Literary fiction short story. Fans of Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore, John Cheever, or John Updike *may* enjoy this story. If plot-driven genre fiction is more in your whe...

James Wolcott writing in Vanity Fair said, "If a tinge of melancholy haunts the cocktail hour, if a croquet mallet left derelict on the lawn evokes a broken merrime...