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1st Quarter 2025 favorites

1st Quarter 2025

The 1st Quarter (Jan-Mar) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Emperor Of The Air’ by Ethan Canin
  2. ‘The Year Of Getting To Know Us’ by Ethan Canin
  3. ‘Goodbye Marcus, Goodbye Rose’ by Jean Rhys
  4. ‘Sweethearts’ by Richard Ford
  5. ‘Crown-Fire’ by Erskine Caldwell
  6. ‘For A Long Time, This Was Griselda’s Story’ by Anthony Doerr
  7. ‘We Are Nighttime Travelers’ by Ethan Canin
  8. ‘The Man In The Moon’ by William Maxwell
  9. ‘Star Food’ by Ethan Canin
  10. ‘The Smile On Happy Chang’s Face’ by Tom Perrotta
  11. ‘Biology’ by Kevin Wilson
  12. ‘The Nice Restaurant’ by Mary Gaitskill
  13. ‘A Tiny Feast’ by Chris Adrian
  14. ‘The Lucid Eye In Silver Town’ by John Updike
  15. ‘Boy And Girl Games Like Coupling’ by Jamie Paige
  16. ‘The Pearl Of Love‘ by H.G. Wells
  17. ‘There He Go’ by Ladee Hubbard
  18. ‘Where We Are Now’ by Ethan Canin
  19. ‘Things My Mother Said’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  20. ‘Goodbye To The Road Not Taken’ by A.M. Homes
  21. ‘Smote, Or When I Find I Cannot Kiss You In Front Of A Print By Bridget Riley’ by Eley Williams
  22. ‘Song Of Roland’ by Jamaica Kincaid
  23. ‘The Last Question’ by Isaac Asimov
  24. ‘Los Angeles’ by Ling Ma
  25. ‘Good Legs’ by Joshua Ferris
  26. ‘The Space’ by Christopher Boucher

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May 2024 favorites

May 2024

The May stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘This Is Salvaged’ by Vauhini Vara
  2. ‘Making Friends’ by Joy Williams
  3. ‘Martha, Martha’ by Zadie Smith
  4. ‘The New Englander’ by Sherwood Anderson
  5. ‘A Penny Short’ by Pete Hsu
  6. ‘The Choc-Ice Woman’ by Mary Costello
  7. ‘Coyotes’ by Andrew Porter
  8. ‘Admirals’ by Michael Chabon
  9. ‘Control Negro’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  10. ‘The Colonel’s Daughter’ by Robert Coover
  11. ‘Julia’ by Ada Zhang
  12. ‘An Actor Prepares’ by Donald Antrim
  13. ‘Comfort’ by Jamel Brinkley
  14. ‘Bad Behavior’ by Alexia Arthurs
  15. ‘What Feminism Is’ by Louise Nealon
  16. ‘Keats At Twenty-Four’ by Caleb Crain
  17. ‘You Are Not Alone’ by Vauhini Vara
  18. ‘Foster’ by Bryan Washington
  19. ‘Annunciation’ by Clare Sestanovich
  20. ‘Alvin The Typesetter’ by Lydia Davis
  21. ‘Bayonne’ by John Cheever
  22. ‘William Wei’ by Amie Barrodale
  23. ‘Thataway’ by Thomas McGuane
  24. ‘Tickets, Please!’ by D.H. Lawrence
  25. ‘Referent’ by Ray Bradbury
  26. ‘The Body’s Defenses Against Itself’ by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
  27. ‘The Ends’ by Peter Ho Davies
  28. ‘The Treasure In The Forest’ by H.G. Wells
  29. ‘Five Weddings’ by Kevin Maloney
  30. ‘The Breaking Up Of The Winships’ by James Thurber
  31. ‘What Stumped The Blue-Jays’ by Mark Twain

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October 2021 favorites

October 2021

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Suspicion’ by Dorothy Sayers
  2. ‘Bad Dreams’ by Tessa Hadley
  3. ‘Mrs. Charbury At Eltham’ by Max Porter
  4. ‘The Man Who Knew How’ by Dorothy Sayers
  5. ‘The Flight Of Geese’ by Leslie Norris
  6. ‘The Open Window’ by Saki
  7. ‘The Lighthouse’ by Agnes Owens
  8. ‘Pornography’ by Ian McEwan
  9. ‘De Mortuis’ by John Collier
  10. ‘The Fountain Plays’ by Dorothy Sayers
  11. ‘An Arrow O’er The House’ by Dorothy Sayers
  12. ‘Then Later, His Ghost’ by Sarah Hall
  13. ‘When The Door Closed, It Was Dark’ by Alison Moore
  14. ‘Le Miroir’ by Robert Aickman
  15. ‘Dilemma’ by Dorothy Sayers
  16. ‘August Heat’ by W.F. Harvey
  17. ‘The Demon Lover’ by Elizabeth Bowen
  18. ‘The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal’ by Daniel Defoe
  19. ‘The Mystery Of Hunter’s Lodge’ by Agatha Christie
  20. ‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf
  21. ‘The Crystal Egg’ by H.G. Wells
  22. ‘The Lamp’ by Agatha Christie
  23. ‘Click-Clack The Rattlebag’ by Neil Gaiman

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October 2020 favorites

October 2020

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Sphinx’ by Edgar Allan Poe
  2. ‘The Pram’ by Roddy Doyle
  3. ‘The Invalid, Or The Bedridden’ by Patricia Highsmith
  4. ‘The Female Novelist’ by Patricia Highsmith
  5. ‘Stone Mattress’ by Margaret Atwood
  6. ‘The Coquette’ by Patricia Highsmith
  7. ‘Mark Of Satan’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  8. ‘The Adventure Of The German Student’ by Washington Irving
  9. ‘You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead’ by Flannery O’Connor
  10. ‘Paranoia’ by Shirley Jackson
  11. ‘The Hand’ by Patricia Highsmith
  12. ‘The Fully Licensed Whore, Or, The Wife’ by Patricia Highsmith
  13. ‘The Mirror’ by Haruki Murakami
  14. ‘Asleep In Armageddon’ by Ray Bradbury
  15. ‘The Middle-Class Housewife’ by Patricia Highsmith
  16. ‘The Breeder’ by Patricia Highsmith
  17. ‘The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid’ by H.G. Wells
  18. ‘The Bold Dragoon, Or The Adventure Of My Grandfather’ by Washington Irving
  19. ‘The Annex’ by Amy Hempel
  20. ‘The Afterlife’ by Jonathan Lethem

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November 2019 favorites

November 2019

The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Drowned Man’ by Maeve Brennan
  2. ‘Family Walls’ by Maeve Brennan
  3. ‘The Poor Men And Women’ by Maeve Brennan
  4. ‘Feathertop’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  5. ‘Victory Over Japan’ by Ellen Gilchrist
  6. ‘A Young Girl Can Spoil Her Chances’ by Maeve Brennan
  7. ‘Trilobites’ by Breece D’J Pancake
  8. ‘A Free Choice’ by Maeve Brennan
  9. ‘The First Day Of Winter’ by Breece D’J Pancake
  10. ‘I See You Never’ by Ray Bradbury
  11. ‘The Honored Dead’ by Breece D’J Pancake
  12. ‘The Way It Has To Be’ by Breece D’J Pancake
  13. ‘The Magic Shop’ by H.G. Wells
  14. ‘In The Dry’ by Breece D’J Pancake
  15. ‘The King Of Jazz’ by Donald Barthelme
  16. ‘Are We Not Men?’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  17. ‘The Evolution Of Knowledge’ by Niccolo Tucci

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