Short Story Magic Tricks

August 2017

The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ by Haruki Murakami
2. ‘The Man Of The House’ by Frank O’Connor
3. ‘Chicxulub’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
4. ‘The Second Bakery Attack’ by Haruki Murakami
5. ‘The Man On The Stairs’ by Miranda July
6. ‘First Confession’ by Frank O’Connor
7. ‘Sault Ste. Marie’ by David Means
8. ‘Them Old Cowboy Songs’ by Annie Proulx
9. ‘The Year Of Spaghetti’ by Haruki Murakami
10. ‘My Oedipus Complex’ by Frank O’Connor
11. ‘August 25, 1983’ by Jorge Luis Borges
12. ‘A Piece Of News’ by Eudora Welty
13. ‘Legal Aid’ by Frank O’Connor
14. ‘Dabchick’ by Haruki Murakami
15. ‘Other Factors’ by Mary Gaitskill
16. ‘Prodigal’ by Laura D. Nichols
17. ‘The Masculine Principle’ by Frank O’Connor
18. ‘The Prophetic Pictures’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. ‘The Stolen Body’ by H.G. Wells

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