December 2023 favorites

December 2023

The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Hunter’ by E.L. Doctorow
2. ‘A Couple Of Nights Before Christmas’ by J.F. Powers
3. ‘Charity’ by Cara Blue Adams
4. ‘King Kong Korab’ by Pete Hsu
5. ‘Balloons’ by Thomas McGuane
6. ‘How To Become A Writer’ by Lorrie Moore
7. ‘Federation For The Like-Minded’ by Sidik Fofana
8. ‘The Joker’ by Maeve Brennan
9. ‘Giving’ by Dean Doner
10. ‘Charades’ by Lorrie Moore
11. ‘Game Five’ by Pete Hsu
12. ‘The Wind’ by Lauren Groff
13. ‘In And Out Of Houses’ by Elizabeth Taylor
14. ‘The Carol Sing’ by John Updike
15. ‘Alaska’ by Tom Franklin
16. ‘Perhaps A Family Failing’ by Elizabeth Taylor
17. ‘The Trip’ by Weike Wang
18. ‘Any Further West’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
19. ‘Over There’ by Julie Hecht
20. ‘The Kind Of Light That Shines On Texas’ by Reginald McKnight
21. ‘Femme’ by Aryn Kyle
22. ‘To Do’ by Kate Walbert
23. ‘A Wreath For Miss Totten’ by Hortense Calisher
24. ‘The Grave’ by Katherine Anne Porter
25. ‘Little Miss Sophie’ by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
26. ‘The Car We Had To Push’ by James Thurber
27. ‘Dancing Dan’s Christmas’ by Damon Runyon
28. ‘The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall’ by Katherine Anne Porter
29. ‘O’Brien’s First Christmas’ by Jeanette Winterson
30. ‘What Can You Do With A General’ by Emma Cline
31. ‘The Strategy Of The Were-Wolf Dog’ by Willa Cather

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