April 2024
The April stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘The Basement Room’ by Graham Greene
- ‘Barn Burning’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘Boys And Girls Like You And Me’ by Aryn Kyle
- ‘The Sea Latch’ by Cara Blue Adams
- ‘Hole’ by Andrew Porter
- ‘Face Time’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘The Reverse Bug’ by Lore Segal
- ‘The Eclipse’ by Elizabeth Spencer
- ‘A Wet Day’ by Mary Lavin
- ‘Paradise’ by Edna O’Brien
- ‘The Swan’ by Roald Dahl
- ‘Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘The Disappeared’ by Andrew Porter
- ‘B.F. And Me’ by Lucia Berlin
- ‘By The Waters Of Babylon’ by Stephen Vincent Benét
- ‘A Thing At Work’ by George Saunders
- ‘I, Buffalo’ by Vauhini Vara
- ‘The Mom Of Bold Action’ by George Saunders
- ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ by D.H. Lawrence
- ‘Draft Day’ by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
- ‘Texas’ by David Gates
- ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Claire Vaye Watkins
- ‘A Sheltered Woman’ by Yiyun Li
- ‘The Greatest Gift’ by Philip Van Doren Stern
- ‘Unknown Unknowns’ by Vauhini Vara
- ‘Chance The Cat’ by David Means
- ‘The Island’ by Tove Jansson
- ‘Island’ by Gretel Ehrlich
- ‘The Wisdom Of Eve’ by Mary Orr
- ‘Life Without Children’ by Roddy Doyle
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