December 2019 favorites

December 2019

The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Bad Characters’ by Jean Stafford
2. ‘The Possibility Of Evil’ by Shirley Jackson
3. ‘The Loudest Voice’ by Grace Paley
4. ‘Encarnación Mendoza’s Christmas Eve’ by Juan Bosch
5. ‘The Discovery Of Christmas’ by Carson McCullers
6. ‘The Christmas Turkey’ by Mário de Andrade
7. ‘The Artist’ by Patricia Highsmith
8. ‘Mortals’ by Tobias Wolff
9. ‘Uncles’ by Peter Taylor
10. ‘Santa Claus Is A White Man’ by John Henrik Clarke
11. ‘The Cliff’ by Charles Baxter
12. ‘Two Turtledoves’ by John O’Hara
13. ‘His Final Mother’ by Reynolds Price
14. ‘Sleep’ by Haruki Murakami
15. ‘Rose’ by Mavis Gallant
16. ‘On The Street Where You Live’ by Yiyun Li
17. ‘All That’ by David Foster Wallace

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