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1st Quarter 2026 favorites

1st Quarter 2026

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

  1. ‘Attraction’ by David Long
  2. ‘Red Light’ by Zach Williams
  3. ‘Wrong Object’ by Mona Simpson
  4. ‘The Ladder’ by V.S. Pritchett
  5. ‘Treelaw’ by Anna Noyes
  6. ‘Electric Car, El Paso’ by Lucia Berlin
  7. ‘The Necklace’ by V.S. Pritchett
  8. ‘Air Fair’ by Richard Leise
  9. ‘The Eighth Day’ by Max Apple
  10. ‘Neighbors’ by Zach Williams
  11. ‘Mousetraps’ by Zach Williams
  12. ‘Trial Run’ by Zach Willams
  13. ‘Head And Shoulders’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  14. ‘Nine Inches’ by Tom Perrotta
  15. ‘Matinee’ by Robert Coover
  16. ‘Effie Whittlesy’ by George Ade
  17. ‘In Retail’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  18. ‘Hibernation’ by Anna Noyes
  19. ‘Geese’ by ZZ Packer
  20. ‘Bijou’ by Stuart Dybek
  21. ‘Arrogance’ by Megan Staffel
  22. ‘The New Toe’ by Zach Williams
  23. ‘When Flashers Meet’ by Pamela Painter
  24. ‘The Little Widow From The Capital’ by Yohanca Delgado
  25. ‘Time Invents Us’ by Anita Felicelli
  26. ‘The Woman Who Lived In A Restaurant’ by Leone Ross
  27. ‘The Chaser’ by John Collier

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4th Quarter 2025 favorites

4th Quarter 2025

The 4th Quarter (Oct-Dec) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Best Of Everything’ by Richard Yates
  2. ‘A Manual For Cleaning Women’ by Lucia Berlin
  3. ‘The Canal’ by Richard Yates
  4. ‘A Wrestler Of Sharks’ by Richard Yates
  5. ‘The Deposition’ by Tobias Wolff
  6. ‘A Really Good Jazz Piano’ by Richard Yates
  7. ‘Intruders Of Sleepless Nights’ by Pamela Painter
  8. ‘The Little Statue’ by Maeve Murphy
  9. ‘Minotaur’ by Jim Shepard
  10. ‘A Glutton For Punishment’ by Richard Yates
  11. ‘Liquid Papers’ by Nicolette Polek
  12. ‘American Beauty’ by Ethan Canin
  13. ‘The B.A.R. Man’ by Richard Yates
  14. ‘Xmas, Jamaica Plain’ by Melanie Rae Thon
  15. ‘The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes’ by Henry James
  16. ‘Delivery’ by Bruce Barrow
  17. ‘Dirt’ by Maud Casey
  18. ‘The Rider Was Lost’ by Nancy Hale
  19. ‘The Fir Tree’ by Hans Christian Andersen
  20. ‘Live Wires’ by Thomas Beller
  21. ‘Let’s Play Dead’ by Senaa Ahmad
  22. ‘Doggerland’ by Kaliane Bradley
  23. ‘Crouch End’ by Stephen King
  24. ‘Happy’ by Richard Ford
  25. ‘Dagon’ by H.P. Lovecraft

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3rd Quarter 2024 favorites

3rd Quarter 2024

The 3rd Quarter (Jul-Sep) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Death By Landscape’ by Margaret Atwood
  2. ‘Guests’ by Mary Terrier
  3. ‘Twenty Minutes’ by James Salter
  4. ‘Headlights’ by Samanta Schweblin
  5. ‘My Heart Is Either Broken’ by Megan Abbott
  6. ‘My House’ by George Saunders
  7. ‘Witness’ by Jamel Brinkley
  8. ‘In A Tub’ by Amy Hempel
  9. ‘Rose’ by Guy de Maupassant
  10. ‘Vandals’ by Alice Munro
  11. ‘Donkey Gets Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched’ by Steve Almond
  12. ‘My Jockey’ by Lucia Berlin
  13. ‘Bangkok’ by James Salter
  14. ‘Ten-Year Affair’ by Erin Somers
  15. ‘The Prussian Officer’ by D.H. Lawrence
  16. ‘An Uncomfortable Bed’ by Guy de Maupassant
  17. ‘Jeeves And The Hard-Boiled Egg’ by P.G. Wodehouse
  18. ‘Taylor Swift’ by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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June 2024 favorites

June 2024

The June stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Sex Appeal’ by Lucia Berlin
  2. ‘A Stick Of Green Candy’ by Jane Bowles
  3. ‘A Visit To Grandmother’ by William Melvin Kelley
  4. ‘Teenage Punk’ by Lucia Berlin
  5. ‘Animal Behavior’ by Laurie Colwin
  6. ‘You’re The Sweetest’ by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
  7. ‘The Orphaned Swimming Pool’ by John Updike
  8. ‘Late Love’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  9. ‘Rules Of The Game’ by Amy Tan
  10. ‘A Cruelty’ by Kevin Barry
  11. ‘A Dark And Winding Road’ by Ottessa Moshfegh

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