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January 2017 favorites
The January stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Promise’ by John Steinbeck
- ‘A Loaf Of Bread’ by James Alan McPherson
- ‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant
- ‘The Emerald Light In The Air’ by Donald Antrim
- ‘The Adventure Of The Empty House’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
- ‘Coach’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Smother’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘Most Die Young’ by Camille Bordas
- ‘Permission To Enter’ by Zadie Smith
- ‘The Peasant Marey’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ‘An Honest Thief’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ‘Game Plan’ by Don DeLillo
- ‘Two Men Arrive In A Village’ by Zadie Smith
- ‘A Novel In Nine Letters’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ‘The Crocodile’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ‘One Officer, One Man’ by Ambrose Bierce
- ‘Escape From New York’ by Zadie Smith
- ‘Rest Stop’ by Stephen King
- ‘Moonlit Landscape With Bridge’ by Zadie Smith
- ‘Bobok’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ‘Meet The President!’ by Zadie Smith
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‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, 1884 Continue reading
‘A New Year’s Gift’ by Guy de Maupassant
A New Year’s Gift by Guy de Maupassant Continue reading
December 2014 favorites
The December stories organized solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘Jeeves And The Yule-Tide Spirit’ by P.G. Wodehouse
- ‘The H Street Sledding Record’ by Ron Carlson
- ‘A Christmas Memory’ by Truman Capote
- ‘A Christmas Tree And A Wedding’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ‘The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
- ‘Christmas At Red Butte’ by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- ‘Christmas Eve’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘One Christmas Eve’ by Langston Hughes
- ‘The Gift Of The Magi’ by O. Henry
- ‘Powder’ by Tobias Wolff
- ‘The Ledge’ by Lawrence Sargent Hall
- ‘A Child’s Christmas In Wales’ by Dylan Thomas
- ‘The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding’ by Agatha Christie
- ‘The Christmas Wreck’ by Frank Stockton
- ‘At Christmas Time’ by Anton Chekhov
- ‘Christmas Day In The Morning’ by Pearl S. Buck
- ‘The Little Match Girl’ by Hans Christian Andersen
- ‘Markheim’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
- ‘Christmas Is A Sad Season For The Poor’ by John Cheever
- ‘The Burglar’s Christmas’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Papa Panov’s Special Christmas’ by Leo Tolstoy
- ‘The Beggar Boy At Christ’s Christmas Tree’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- ‘A New Year’s Gift’ by Guy de Maupassant
- ‘The Christmas Banquet’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Best Christmas Ever’ by James Patrick Kelly
- ‘Christmas Eve’ by Guy de Maupassant
‘Christmas Eve’ by Guy de Maupassant
Christmas Eve by Guy de Maupassant, 1882 Continue reading


