Short Story Magic Tricks

June 2017

The June stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘My Purple Scented Novel’ by Ian McEwan
2. ‘Roman Fever’ by Edith Wharton
3. ‘The Lotus’ by Jean Rhys
4. ‘Playing With Dynamite’ by John Updike
5. ‘A Family Man’ by V.S. Pritchett
6. ‘The Brown Chest’ by John Updike
7. ‘A Piece Of String’ by Guy de Maupassant
8. ‘The Lovely Troubled Daughters Of Our Old Crowd’ by John Updike
9. ‘Some Terpsichore’ by Elizabeth McCracken
10. ‘Gesturing’ by John Updike
11. ‘Manikin’ by Leonard Michaels
12. ‘The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals’ by John Updike
13. ‘The Duchess And The Jeweller’ by Virginia Woolf
14. ‘Change Of Treatment’ by W.W. Jacobs
15. ‘Good Intentions’ by Etgar Keret
16. ‘Graven Image’ by John O’Hara
17. ‘To Those Of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights Out Of O’Hare’ by Amy Hempel

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