May 2016
The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’ by Isaac Babel
- ‘The Swimmer’ by John Cheever
- ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Ransom Of Red Chief’ by O. Henry
- ‘The Luck Of Roaring Camp’ by Bret Harte
- ‘Drummond & Son’ by Charles D’Ambrosio
- ‘Thank You Ma’am’ by Langston Hughes
- ‘The Duplicity Of Hargraves’ by O. Henry
- ‘A Summer’s Reading’ by Bernard Malamud
- ‘The Swimmers’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘Prizes’ by Janet Frame
- ‘The Student’s Wife’ by Raymond Carver
- ‘My Father Sits In The Dark’ by Jerome Weidman
- ‘The Cop And The Anthem’ by O. Henry
- ‘Tobin’s Palm’ by O. Henry
- ‘The Clarion Call’ by O. Henry
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