A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection   For more than forty years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, in stories that are ambitious, twisted, and authentic. In "Vermont," Beattie details the life of a reconfigured family as they search for fulfillment by escaping north.   From her debut collection Distortions, which established Ann Beattie as a fresh voice of American fiction, a prodigious master of the short-story, and which continues to influence writers to this day.   An eBook short.