Short Story Magic Tricks

July 2022

The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Indianapolis (Highway 74)’ by Sam Shepard
2. ‘The Years Of My Birth’ by Louise Erdrich
3. ‘Community Life’ by Lorrie Moore
4. ‘Désirée’s Baby’ by Kate Chopin
5. ‘River Of Names’ by Dorothy Allison
6. ‘Hellion’ by Julia Elliott
7. ‘Who Am I This Time?’ by Kurt Vonnegut
8. ‘May Queen’ by Mary Robison
9. ‘The Mappist’ by Barry Lopez
10. ‘Why I Like Country Music’ by James Alan McPherson
11. ‘A Respectable Woman’ by Kate Chopin
12. ‘Naked Woman Playing Chopin’ by Louise Erdrich
13. ‘The Appropriation Of Cultures’ by Percival Everett
14. ‘The Old Halvorson Place’ by Larry Woiwode
15. ‘Strays’ by Mark Richard
16. ‘Song On Royal Street’ by Richard Blessing

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