Short Story Magic Tricks

January 2018

The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Displaced Person’ by Flannery O’Connor
2. ‘I Can Say Many Nice Things’ by Ben Marcus
3. ‘A Temple Of The Holy Ghost’ by Flannery O’Connor
4. ‘The Barber’ by Flannery O’Connor
5. ‘Figures In The Distance’ by Jamaica Kincaid
6. ‘Rollingwood’ by Ben Marcus
7. ‘Why Do The Heathens Rage?’ by Flannery O’Connor
8. ‘Keela, The Outcast Indian Maiden’ by Eudora Welty
9. ‘Wild Plums’ by Grace Stone Coates
10. ‘The Looking Glass’ by Anton Chekhov
11. ‘Truant’ by Claude McKay
12. ‘Enoch And The Gorilla’ by Flannery O’Connor
13. ‘The Dark Arts’ by Ben Marcus
14. ‘Mary Elizabeth’ by Jessie Faucet
15. ‘The South’ by Jorge Luis Borges
16. ‘Blueprints For St. Louis’ by Ben Marcus
17. ‘Storytellers, Liars, And Bores’ by Leonard Michaels
18. ‘First Love’ by Ben Marcus

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