Short Story Magic Tricks

3rd Quarter 2024

The 3rd Quarter (Jul-Sep) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘Death By Landscape’ by Margaret Atwood
2. ‘Guests’ by Mary Terrier
3. ‘Twenty Minutes’ by James Salter
4. ‘Headlights’ by Samanta Schweblin
5. ‘My Heart Is Either Broken’ by Megan Abbott
6. ‘My House’ by George Saunders
7. ‘Witness’ by Jamel Brinkley
8. ‘In A Tub’ by Amy Hempel
9. ‘Rose’ by Guy de Maupassant
10. ‘Vandals’ by Alice Munro
11. ‘Donkey Gets Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched’ by Steve Almond
12. ‘My Jockey’ by Lucia Berlin
13. ‘Bangkok’ by James Salter
14. ‘Ten-Year Affair’ by Erin Somers
15. ‘The Prussian Officer’ by D.H. Lawrence
16. ‘An Uncomfortable Bed’ by Guy de Maupassant
17. ‘Jeeves And The Hard-Boiled Egg’ by P.G. Wodehouse
18. ‘Taylor Swift’ by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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