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July 2019 favorites

July 2019

The July stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Andersen
  2. ‘Too Early Spring’ by Stephen Vincent Benét
  3. ‘When We Went To See The End Of The World By Dawnie Morningside, Age 11¼’ by Neil Gaiman
  4. ‘The Nightingale And The Rose’ by Oscar Wilde
  5. ‘The Remarkable Rocket’ by Oscar Wilde
  6. ‘The Devoted Friend’ by Oscar Wilde
  7. ‘The Moon Child Of Wolfe Creek’ by Jesse Stuart
  8. ‘The Coming Of The King’ by Laura E. Richards
  9. ‘The Gray Hare’ by Leo Tolstoy
  10. ‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde
  11. ‘The Wish’ by Roald Dahl
  12. ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde
  13. ‘Breaking The Pig’ by Etgar Keret
  14. ‘Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father And Husband’ by George Saunders
  15. ‘The Shirt-Collar’ by Hans Christian Andersen
  16. ‘How The Camel Got His Hump’ by Rudyard Kipling
  17. ‘The Mixer II: He Moves In Society’ by P.G. Wodehouse

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October 2018 favorites

October 2018

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘The Adventure Of The Speckled Band’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
  2. ‘St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves’ by Karen Russell
  3. ‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl
  4. ‘Jesse’ by Rosemarie Robotham
  5. ‘Haunting Olivia’ by Karen Russell
  6. ‘ZZ’s Sleep-Away Camp For Disordered Dreamers’ by Karen Russell
  7. ‘Lady Yeti And The Palace Of Artificial Snows’ by Karen Russell
  8. ‘Sense Of Humor’ by Damon Runyon
  9. ‘The Music Teacher’ by John Cheever
  10. ‘Nausea 1979’ by Haruki Murakami
  11. ‘The Undertaker’ by Alexander Pushkin
  12. ‘The Colour Out Of Space’ by H.P. Lovecraft
  13. ‘The Rosary’ by Robert Kelly
  14. ‘A Haunted House’ by Charles Dickens
  15. ‘The Man Of Adamant’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  16. ‘Signal’ by John Lanchester
  17. ‘The Bog Girl’ by Karen Russell

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October 2017 favorites

October 2017

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ by Ray Bradbury
  2. ‘The Hanging Stranger’ by Philip K. Dick
  3. ‘Landfill’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  4. ‘Closing Time’ by Neil Gaiman
  5. ‘A Resumed Identity’ by Ambrose Bierce
  6. ‘St. John’s Eve’ by Nikolai Gogol
  7. ‘Man From The South’ by Roald Dahl
  8. ‘The Terror’ by Guy de Maupassant
  9. ‘The Circular Ruins’ by Jorge Luis Borges
  10. ‘One Summer Night’ by Ambrose Bierce
  11. ‘A Vine On A House’ by Ambrose Bierce
  12. ‘Quitters, Inc.’ by Stephen King
  13. ‘The Beggarwoman Of Locarno’ by Heinrich von Kleist
  14. ‘The Boarded Window’ by Ambrose Bierce
  15. ‘A Baby Tramp’ by Ambrose Bierce
  16. ‘The White Maniac – A Doctor’s Tale’ by Mary Fortune

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