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February 2023 favorites
The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Dead Men’s Path’ by Chinua Achebe
- ‘At The Clinic’ by Sally Rooney
- ‘Secret Weapons’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘Bliss’ by Katherine Mansfield
- ‘Every Tongue Shall Confess’ by ZZ Packer
- ‘In The Name Of Bobby’ by Julio Cortázar
- ‘The Cold Boy’ by Benjamin Percy
- ‘Ain’t That Good News’ by Brit Bennett
- ‘The Pace Of Youth’ by Stephen Crane
- ‘I Am Twenty-One’ by Mary Robison
- ‘The Daughters’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘Ray-Ray’s Picture Box’ by James McBride
- ‘Smart’ by Mary Robison
- ‘My Apology’ by Sam Lipsyte
- ‘Billboard’ by Richard Bausch
- ‘Ozème’s Holiday’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘The Waltz’ by Dorothy Parker
- ‘The Green Door’ by O. Henry
- ‘In The Woods’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Sugar Baby’ by Chinua Achebe
- ‘Some Like Them Cold’ by Ring Lardner
- ‘My Last Story’ by Janet Frame
- ‘Haunted’ by Walter Mosley
- ‘Yancey’ by Ann Beattie
- ‘The Neighbor’ by Russell Banks
- ‘A Deserted Street’ by Tawfiq Al-Hakim
- ‘Top Of The Food Chain’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- ‘Miracles’ by Lucy Corin
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‘Ozème’s Holiday’ by Kate Chopin
Ozème’s Holiday by Kate Chopin, 1896 Continue reading
July 2022 favorites
The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Indianapolis (Highway 74)’ by Sam Shepard
- ‘The Years Of My Birth’ by Louise Erdrich
- ‘Community Life’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘Désirée’s Baby’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘River Of Names’ by Dorothy Allison
- ‘Hellion’ by Julia Elliott
- ‘Who Am I This Time?’ by Kurt Vonnegut
- ‘May Queen’ by Mary Robison
- ‘The Mappist’ by Barry Lopez
- ‘Why I Like Country Music’ by James Alan McPherson
- ‘A Respectable Woman’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘Naked Woman Playing Chopin’ by Louise Erdrich
- ‘The Appropriation Of Cultures’ by Percival Everett
- ‘The Old Halvorson Place’ by Larry Woiwode
- ‘Strays’ by Mark Richard
- ‘Song On Royal Street’ by Richard Blessing
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‘A Respectable Woman’ by Kate Chopin
A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin, 1894 Continue reading
‘Désirée’s Baby’ by Kate Chopin
Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin, 1893 Continue reading
March 2020 favorites
March 2020
The March stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Wakefield’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Death Of A Government Clerk’ by Anton Chekhov
- ‘A Dead Woman’s Secrets’ by Guy de Maupassant
- ‘Her Letters’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘The Birth-Mark’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘The Lightning-Rod Man’ by Herman Melville
- ‘The Pelican’ by Edith Wharton
- ‘Wild Frank’s Return’ by Walt Whitman
- ‘A Winter Courtship’ by Sarah Orne Jewett
- ‘My Friend Bingham’ by Henry James
- ‘The Haunted Mind’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Nanette: An Aside’ by Willa Cather
- ‘The Striding Place’ by Gertrude Atherton
- ‘Is He Living Or Is He Dead?’ by Mark Twain
- ‘The Maypole Of Merry-Mount’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Legend Of The Two Discreet Statues’ by Washington Irving
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‘Her Letters’ by Kate Chopin
Her Letters by Kate Chopin, 1895 Continue reading
August 2018 favorites
The August stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Comforts Of Home’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘Petrified Man’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Where Is The Voice Coming From?’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Hair’ by William Faulkner
- ‘Dogs Go Wolf’ by Lauren Groff
- ‘A Pair Of Silk Stockings’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘Lily Daw And The Three Ladies’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed’ by Barry Hannah
- ‘My Side Of The Matter’ by Truman Capote
- ‘The Homecoming’ by Frank Yerby
- ‘A Memory’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘The Confidence Man’ by George Garrett
- ‘A Curtain Of Green’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘Wunderkind’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘The Man With Two Left Feet’ by P.G. Wodehouse
- ‘Porte-Cochere’ by Peter Taylor
- ‘A Mother’s Tale’ by James Agee
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‘A Pair Of Silk Stockings’ by Kate Chopin
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