Short Story Magic Tricks

4th Quarter 2024

The 4th Quarter (Oct-Dec) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘Peach Cobbler’ by Deesha Philyaw
2. ‘The Pleasures Of Television’ by Rebecca Bernard
3. ‘Pitch Memory’ by Ethan Canin
4. ‘Hollywood Lanes’ by Megan Abbott
5. ‘Former Marine’ by Russell Banks
6. ‘Sarah Cole: A Type Of Love Story’ by Russell Banks
7. ‘Eula’ by Deesha Philyaw
8. ‘Rough Deeds’ by Annie Proulx
9. ‘The Haunted And The Haunters’ by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
10. ‘Christmas At The Cross’ by Maeve Murphy
11. ‘The Finkelstein 5’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
12. ‘A Country Christmas’ by Louisa May Alcott
13. ‘The Ascent’ by Ron Rash
14. ‘The Dune’ by Stephen King
15. ‘First Dark’ by Elizabeth Spencer
16. ‘The Music School’ by John Updike
17. ‘It’s Like A Whisper’ by Megan Abbott
18. ‘The Adventure Of The Musgrave Ritual’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
19. ‘Oxford Girl’ by Megan Abbott
20. ‘The Wind In The Rose-Bush’ by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
21. ‘Footfalls’ by Wilbur Daniel Steele
22. ‘Monster’ by Michael Czyzniejewski
23. ‘Our Eyes Couldn’t Stop Opening’ by Megan Abbott
24. ‘The Wrong Man’ by Nella Larsen
25. ‘We’ by Mary Grimm
26. ‘Freedom’ by Nella Larsen
27. ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury
28. ‘The Wrong Shape’ by G.K. Chesterton
29. ‘Today We Hit’ by Megan Abbott

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