How To Tell Stories To Children by Miranda July, 2007 Continue reading
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‘How To Talk To Girls At Parties’ by Neil Gaiman
How To Talk To Girls At Parties by Neil Gaiman, 2006 Continue reading
‘Revenge Of The Lawn’ by Richard Brautigan
Revenge Of The Lawn by Richard Brautigan, 1971 Continue reading
‘A Subject Of Childhood’ by Grace Paley
A Subject Of Childhood by Grace Paley, 1959 Continue reading
‘Where The Door Is Always Open And The Welcome Mat Is Out’ by Patricia Highsmith
Where The Door Is Always Open And The Welcome Mat Is Out by Patricia Highsmith, 1945 Continue reading
‘The Paperhanger’ by William Gay
The Paperhanger by William Gay, 2000 Continue reading
‘A Late Encounter With The Enemy’ by Flannery O’Connor
A Late Encounter With The Enemy by Flannery O’Connor, 1955 Continue reading
‘Regret’ by Kate Chopin
Regret by Kate Chopin, 1895 Continue reading
February 2017 favorites
The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘We Didn’t’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘Separating’ by John Updike
- ‘A Retrieved Reformation’ by O. Henry
- ‘Postcard’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Aurora’ by Junot Diaz
- ‘Ligeia’ by Edgar Allan Poe
- ‘The Altar Of The Dead’ by Henry James
- ‘An Ounce Of Cure’ by Alice Munro
- ‘The Furnished Room’ by O. Henry
- ‘Transients In Arcadia’ by O. Henry
- ‘On The Gull’s Road’ by Willa Cather
- ‘The Skylight Room’ by O. Henry
- ‘How’ by Roxane Gay
- ‘Teller’s Ticket’ by Robert Flanagan
- ‘It Was Romance’ by Miranda July
- ‘The Romance Of A Busy Broker’ by O. Henry
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‘An Ounce Of Cure’ by Alice Munro
An Ounce Of Cure by Alice Munro, 1961 Continue reading


