February 2016 favorites

February 2016

The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge’ by Ambrose Bierce
2. ‘A Horseman In The Sky’ by Ambrose Bierce
3. ‘Slave On The Block’ by Langston Hughes
4. ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County’ by Mark Twain
5. ‘Killed At Resaca’ by Ambrose Bierce
6. ‘Gimpel The Fool’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer
7. ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’ by Hans Christian Andersen
8. ‘Four Days In Dixie’ by Ambrose Bierce
9. ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love’ by Raymond Carver
10. ‘The Offshore Pirate’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. ‘Me And Miss Mandible’ by Donald Barthelme
12. ‘The Eighty-Yard Run’ by Irwin Shaw
13. ‘A Baffled Ambuscade’ by Ambrose Bierce
14. ‘Beginners’ by Raymond Carver
15. ‘What We Don’t Know Hurts Us’ by Mark Schorer
16. ‘Durling, Or The Faithless Wife’ by Sean O’Faolain
17. ‘First Husband’ by Antonya Nelson
18. ‘Somewhere Else’ by Grace Paley
19. ‘Long Walk To Forever’ by Kurt Vonnegut
20. ‘Zapatos’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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