Short Story Magic Tricks

April 2021

The April stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Mother’ by Natalia Ginzburg
2. ‘A Lodging For The Night’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. ‘A Day In The Country’ by Dan Jacobson
4. ‘The House Of The Famous Poet’ by Muriel Spark
5. ‘The Clearing’ by Luisa Mercedes Levinson
6. ‘The Life Of The Imagination’ by Nadine Gordimer
7. ‘Doctors’ by Anneliese Mackintosh
8. ‘Tony Takitani’ by Haruki Murakami
9. ‘The Pet’ by Nadine Gordimer
10. ‘The Tiger Of The Plains’ by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
11. ‘Crabs’ by Haruki Murakami
12. ‘The Rise And Fall Of Sharpie Cakes’ by Haruki Murakami
13. ‘Night Calls’ by Lisa Fugard
14. ‘As You Would Have Told It To Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died’ by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
15. ‘The Shinagawa Monkey’ by Haruki Murakami
16. ‘The Yellow Paint’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
17. ‘How To Travel With A Salmon’ by Umberto Eco
18. ‘He Who Listens May Hear – To His Regret: Confidence Of A Confidence’ by Juana Manuela Gorriti
19. ‘The Stump-Grubber’ by Torgny Lindgren
20. ‘The Little Green Monster’ by Haruki Murakami
21. ‘A Leading Role’ by Tove Jansson
22. ‘The Braider’ by Ricardo Güiraldes

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