1st Quarter 2026 favorites

1st Quarter 2026

The 1st Quarter (Jan-Mar) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘Attraction’ by David Long
2. ‘Red Light’ by Zach Williams
3. ‘Wrong Object’ by Mona Simpson
4. ‘The Ladder’ by V.S. Pritchett
5. ‘Treelaw’ by Anna Noyes
6. ‘Electric Car, El Paso’ by Lucia Berlin
7. ‘The Necklace’ by V.S. Pritchett
8. ‘Air Fair’ by Richard Leise
9. ‘The Eighth Day’ by Max Apple
10. ‘Neighbors’ by Zach Williams
11. ‘Mousetraps’ by Zach Williams
12. ‘Trial Run’ by Zach Willams
13. ‘Head And Shoulders’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. ‘Nine Inches’ by Tom Perrotta
15. ‘Matinee’ by Robert Coover
16. ‘Effie Whittlesy’ by George Ade
17. ‘In Retail’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
18. ‘Hibernation’ by Anna Noyes
19. ‘Geese’ by ZZ Packer
20. ‘Bijou’ by Stuart Dybek
21. ‘Arrogance’ by Megan Staffel
22. ‘The New Toe’ by Zach Williams
23. ‘When Flashers Meet’ by Pamela Painter
24. ‘The Little Widow From The Capital’ by Yohanca Delgado
25. ‘Time Invents Us’ by Anita Felicelli
26. ‘The Woman Who Lived In A Restaurant’ by Leone Ross
27. ‘The Chaser’ by John Collier

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