Tag Archives: 1991

The Christmas Killer By Patricia Windsor

Posted on December 16, 2018 by mondomolly

She’s dreaming of a dead Christmas… I didn’t think much of Patricia Windor’s Seventeen short story about a teenage girl deciding not to pursue an affair with an older man, but Christmas-themed YAs are getting to be slim pickings… The Plot: …So … Continue reading →

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Three Decades of Short Fiction from SEVENTEEN Magazine

Posted on July 8, 2018 by mondomolly

Like its older sisters in the field of mass-market women’s magazines (everything from Cosmopolitan to Woman’s Day) Seventeen featured a great deal of short fiction in its pages from its debut in 1944. Some of these were reprinted in anthologies, … Continue reading →

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Project Boyfriend By Stephanie St. Pierre

Posted on May 11, 2017 by mondomolly

Can Stacey capture Max’s heart, or is her downhill romance destined for a crash landing? This one came out in 1991, fairly late in the run of Bantam’s Sweet Dreams romance imprint, which I didn’t notice until I sat down … Continue reading →

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Magazine Madness and/or Mania: Seventeen, February 1991

Posted on February 14, 2014 by mondomolly

Time-traveling Richard Grieco is here to wish you a happy Valentine’s Day, 1991-style! Even for Seventeen, this is an issue almost completely devoid of content. Possibly because the editors seared their eyeballs into oblivion looking at the featured fashion spread (click all … Continue reading →

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