Short Story Magic Tricks

November 2021

The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Turkey Season’ by Alice Munro
2. ‘Jericho’s Brick Battlements’ by Margaret Laurence
3. ‘Hair Jewellery’ by Margaret Atwood
4. ‘Extra’ by Yiyun Li
5. ‘Miss Harriet’ by Guy de Maupassant
6. ‘Storm In A Teacup’ by Lu Xun
7. ‘Guy de Maupassant’ by Isaac Babel
8. ‘Idyll’ by Guy de Maupassant
9. ‘A Clean Marriage’ by Sayaka Murata
10. ‘Confessing’ by Guy de Maupassant
11. ‘Medicine’ by Lu Xun
12. ‘Omakase’ by Weike Wang
13. ‘Mateo Falcone’ by Prosper Mérimée
14. ‘A Wedding-Dress’ by Morley Callaghan
15. ‘Aftermath’ by Mary Yukari Waters
16. ‘Offside Constantly’ by Camille Bordas
17. ‘Helix’ by Banana Yoshimoto
18. ‘One Arm’ by Yasunari Kawabata
19. ‘My Financial Career’ by Stephen Leacock
20. ‘My Life Is A Joke’ by Sheila Heti
21. ‘The Dark Lantern’ by Jules Renard

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