July 2021
The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Blow-Up’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘The Secret Miracle’ by Jorge Luis Borges
- ‘Happy Birthday’ by Clarice Lispector
- ‘End Of The Game’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘Lima, Peru, July 28, 1979’ by Daniel Alarcón
- ‘Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon’ by Gabriel García Márquez
- ‘I’m Your Horse In The Night’ by Luisa Valenzuela
- ‘Birds In The Mouth’ by Samanta Schweblin
- ‘The Smallest Woman In The World’ by Clarice Lispector
- ‘House Taken Over’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘A Singular Occurrence’ by Machado de Assis
- ‘The Challenge’ by Mario Vargas Llosa
- ‘Absit’ by Angélica Gorodischer
- ‘The Lottery Ticket’ by Ventura García Calderón
- ‘Meat’ by Virgilio Piñera
- ‘The Chicken’ by Clarice Lispector
- ‘The Obedient Ones’ by Clarice Lispector
- ‘Letter To A Young Lady In Paris’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘Decoration Day’ by Sarah Orne Jewett
- ‘Penelope’ by Dalton Trevisan
- ‘The Night Face Up’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘The Dinner’ by Clarice Lispector
- ‘The Legend Of ‘El Cadejo’’ by Miguel Angel Asturias
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