May 2024
The May stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘This Is Salvaged’ by Vauhini Vara
- ‘Making Friends’ by Joy Williams
- ‘Martha, Martha’ by Zadie Smith
- ‘The New Englander’ by Sherwood Anderson
- ‘A Penny Short’ by Pete Hsu
- ‘The Choc-Ice Woman’ by Mary Costello
- ‘Coyotes’ by Andrew Porter
- ‘Admirals’ by Michael Chabon
- ‘Control Negro’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
- ‘The Colonel’s Daughter’ by Robert Coover
- ‘Julia’ by Ada Zhang
- ‘An Actor Prepares’ by Donald Antrim
- ‘Comfort’ by Jamel Brinkley
- ‘Bad Behavior’ by Alexia Arthurs
- ‘What Feminism Is’ by Louise Nealon
- ‘Keats At Twenty-Four’ by Caleb Crain
- ‘You Are Not Alone’ by Vauhini Vara
- ‘Foster’ by Bryan Washington
- ‘Annunciation’ by Clare Sestanovich
- ‘Alvin The Typesetter’ by Lydia Davis
- ‘Bayonne’ by John Cheever
- ‘William Wei’ by Amie Barrodale
- ‘Thataway’ by Thomas McGuane
- ‘Tickets, Please!’ by D.H. Lawrence
- ‘Referent’ by Ray Bradbury
- ‘The Body’s Defenses Against Itself’ by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- ‘The Ends’ by Peter Ho Davies
- ‘The Treasure In The Forest’ by H.G. Wells
- ‘Five Weddings’ by Kevin Maloney
- ‘The Breaking Up Of The Winships’ by James Thurber
- ‘What Stumped The Blue-Jays’ by Mark Twain
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