May 2024 favorites

May 2024

The May stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘This Is Salvaged’ by Vauhini Vara
2. ‘Making Friends’ by Joy Williams
3. ‘Martha, Martha’ by Zadie Smith
4. ‘The New Englander’ by Sherwood Anderson
5. ‘A Penny Short’ by Pete Hsu
6. ‘The Choc-Ice Woman’ by Mary Costello
7. ‘Coyotes’ by Andrew Porter
8. ‘Admirals’ by Michael Chabon
9. ‘Control Negro’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
10. ‘The Colonel’s Daughter’ by Robert Coover
11. ‘Julia’ by Ada Zhang
12. ‘An Actor Prepares’ by Donald Antrim
13. ‘Comfort’ by Jamel Brinkley
14. ‘Bad Behavior’ by Alexia Arthurs
15. ‘What Feminism Is’ by Louise Nealon
16. ‘Keats At Twenty-Four’ by Caleb Crain
17. ‘You Are Not Alone’ by Vauhini Vara
18. ‘Foster’ by Bryan Washington
19. ‘Annunciation’ by Clare Sestanovich
20. ‘Alvin The Typesetter’ by Lydia Davis
21. ‘Bayonne’ by John Cheever
22. ‘William Wei’ by Amie Barrodale
23. ‘Thataway’ by Thomas McGuane
24. ‘Tickets, Please!’ by D.H. Lawrence
25. ‘Referent’ by Ray Bradbury
26. ‘The Body’s Defenses Against Itself’ by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
27. ‘The Ends’ by Peter Ho Davies
28. ‘The Treasure In The Forest’ by H.G. Wells
29. ‘Five Weddings’ by Kevin Maloney
30. ‘The Breaking Up Of The Winships’ by James Thurber
31. ‘What Stumped The Blue-Jays’ by Mark Twain

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