Short Story Magic Tricks

January 2020

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘A Jonquil For Mary Penn’ by Wendell Berry
2. ‘A Half-Pint Of Old Darling’ by Wendell Berry
3. ‘Greenleaf’ by Flannery O’Connor
4. ‘The Woman Who Came At Six O’Clock’ by Gabriel García Márquez
5. ‘One Of These Days’ by Gabriel García Márquez
6. ‘Dismemberment’ by Wendell Berry
7. ‘Eyes Of A Blue Dog’ by Gabriel García Márquez
8. ‘A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings’ by Gabriel García Márquez
9. ‘Goodbye, Pops’ by Joe Gores
10. ‘Mother’ by Grace Paley
11. ‘Making It Home’ by Wendell Berry
12. ‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ by Alan Sillitoe
13. ‘Fly Away, Breath’ by Wendell Berry
14. ‘Quiet Please’ by Aimee Bender
15. ‘Nairobi’ by Joyce Carol Oates
16. ‘The Last Voyage Of The Ghost Ship’ by Gabriel García Márquez
17. ‘The Hit Man’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
18. ‘Heart Attack’ by Max Apple

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