Short Story Magic Tricks

February 2021

The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘A Family Supper’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. ‘Filling Up With Sugar’ by Yuten Sawanishi
3. ‘A Perfect Day For Kangaroos’ by Haruki Murakami
4. ‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’ by D.H. Lawrence
5. ‘Gómez Palacio’ by Roberto Bolaño
6. ‘Two Gentle People’ by Graham Greene
7. ‘The Confession’ by Leïla Slimani
8. ‘A Family Like Any Other’ by Carlos Fuentes
9. ‘The Kangaroo Communiqué’ by Haruki Murakami
10. ‘The Adopted Son’ by Guy de Maupassant
11. ‘The Lazy River’ by Zadie Smith
12. ‘I Arrive First’ by Emma Jane Unsworth
13. ‘Saint Julian The Hospitaller’ by Gustave Flaubert
14. ‘Tell Them Not To Kill Me!’ by Juan Rulfo
15. ‘The Switchman’ by Juan José Arreola
16. ‘Kew Gardens’ by Virginia Woolf
17. ‘The Hammam’ by Hervé Guibert

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