Short Story Magic Tricks

May 2022

The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Children On Their Birthdays’ by Truman Capote
2. ‘A View Of The Woods’ by Flannery O’Connor
3. ‘Complicities’ by Alice Adams
4. ‘This Is Paradise’ by Kristiana Kahakauwila
5. ‘Birdland’ by Michael Knight
6. ‘Consolation’ by Richard Bausch
7. ‘Strange Moonlight’ by Conrad Aiken
8. ‘The Quest For “Blank Claveringi”’ by Patricia Highsmith
9. ‘Sucker’ by Carson McCullers
10. ‘Buck Boy’ by James McBride
11. ‘Friends From Philadelphia’ by John Updike
12. ‘To Hell With Dying’ by Alice Walker
13. ‘The Devil And Daniel Webster’ by Stephen Vincent Benét
14. ‘The Local Production Of Cinderella’ by Allegra Goodman
15. ‘Young Francis Whitehead’ by William Maxwell
16. ‘Playing Before Royalty’ by Ian MacMillan
17. ‘The Child Screams And Looks Back At You’ by Russell Banks
18. ‘The Intermediate Class’ by Sam Allingham

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