December 2018 favorites

December 2018

The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Unlighted Lamps’ by Sherwood Anderson
2. ‘The Doll’ by Edna O’Brien
3. ‘Flowers For Algernon’ by Daniel Keyes
4. ‘Homecoming’ by William Maxwell
5. ‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie’ by Beryl Bainbridge
6. ‘The Christmas Miracle’ by Rebecca Curtis
7. ‘Christmas Longings’ by Elizabeth Spencer
8. ‘The Enchanted Bluff’ by Willa Cather
9. ‘New York Mining Disaster’ by Haruki Murakami
10. ‘Christmas Song’ by Langston Hughes
11. ‘Present For Joyce’ by Langston Hughes
12. ‘Lost In The City’ by Edward P. Jones
13. ‘The Cat’ by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
14. ‘Leg’ by Stephen Polansky
15. ‘The Cold Outside’ by John Burnside
16. ‘Stuff’ by Joy Williams
17. ‘Horatio’s Trick’ by Ann Beattie
18. ‘The Night Of Chancellorsville’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. ‘Home For Christmas’ by Jeffrey Shaffer

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