Short Story Magic Tricks

May 2016

The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’ by Isaac Babel
2. ‘The Swimmer’ by John Cheever
3. ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. ‘The Ransom Of Red Chief’ by O. Henry
5. ‘The Luck Of Roaring Camp’ by Bret Harte
6. ‘Drummond & Son’ by Charles D’Ambrosio
7. ‘Thank You Ma’am’ by Langston Hughes
8. ‘The Duplicity Of Hargraves’ by O. Henry
9. ‘A Summer’s Reading’ by Bernard Malamud
10. ‘The Swimmers’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. ‘Prizes’ by Janet Frame
12. ‘The Student’s Wife’ by Raymond Carver
13. ‘My Father Sits In The Dark’ by Jerome Weidman
14. ‘The Cop And The Anthem’ by O. Henry
15. ‘Tobin’s Palm’ by O. Henry
16. ‘The Clarion Call’ by O. Henry

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