February 2022 favorites

February 2022

The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Are You All Right?’ by Wendell Berry
2. ‘Three-Ten To Yuma’ by Elmore Leonard
3. ‘Talkin Bout Sonny’ by Toni Cade Bambara
4. ‘Detroit Skyline 1949’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
5. ‘Dalyrimple Goes Wrong’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. ‘The Terrapin’ by Patricia Highsmith
7. ‘Something Nice’ by Mary Gaitskill
8. ‘A Visit’ by Steven Millhauser
9. ‘Sun City’ by Caitlin Horrocks
10. ‘The Tin Butterfly’ by Mary McCarthy
11. ‘Do With Me What You Will’ by Joyce Carol Oates
12. ‘A Figure Of Speech’ by Tess Gallagher
13. ‘Death Of A Favorite’ by J.F. Powers
14. ‘Haircut’ by Ring Lardner
15. ‘Ghost Patrol’ by Sinclair Lewis
16. ‘I Walk Between The Raindrops’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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