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July 2022 favorites

July 2022

The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Indianapolis (Highway 74)’ by Sam Shepard
  2. ‘The Years Of My Birth’ by Louise Erdrich
  3. ‘Community Life’ by Lorrie Moore
  4. ‘Désirée’s Baby’ by Kate Chopin
  5. ‘River Of Names’ by Dorothy Allison
  6. ‘Hellion’ by Julia Elliott
  7. ‘Who Am I This Time?’ by Kurt Vonnegut
  8. ‘May Queen’ by Mary Robison
  9. ‘The Mappist’ by Barry Lopez
  10. ‘Why I Like Country Music’ by James Alan McPherson
  11. ‘A Respectable Woman’ by Kate Chopin
  12. ‘Naked Woman Playing Chopin’ by Louise Erdrich
  13. ‘The Appropriation Of Cultures’ by Percival Everett
  14. ‘The Old Halvorson Place’ by Larry Woiwode
  15. ‘Strays’ by Mark Richard
  16. ‘Song On Royal Street’ by Richard Blessing

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February 2016 favorites

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February 2016

The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge’ by Ambrose Bierce
  2. ‘A Horseman In The Sky’ by Ambrose Bierce
  3. ‘Slave On The Block’ by Langston Hughes
  4. ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County’ by Mark Twain
  5. ‘Killed At Resaca’ by Ambrose Bierce
  6. ‘Gimpel The Fool’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  7. ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’ by Hans Christian Andersen
  8. ‘Four Days In Dixie’ by Ambrose Bierce
  9. ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love’ by Raymond Carver
  10. ‘The Offshore Pirate’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  11. ‘Me And Miss Mandible’ by Donald Barthelme
  12. ‘The Eighty-Yard Run’ by Irwin Shaw
  13. ‘A Baffled Ambuscade’ by Ambrose Bierce
  14. ‘Beginners’ by Raymond Carver
  15. ‘What We Don’t Know Hurts Us’ by Mark Schorer
  16. ‘Durling, Or The Faithless Wife’ by Sean O’Faolain
  17. ‘First Husband’ by Antonya Nelson
  18. ‘Somewhere Else’ by Grace Paley
  19. ‘Long Walk To Forever’ by Kurt Vonnegut
  20. ‘Zapatos’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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