December 2021
The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Meneseteung’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Another Christmas’ by William Trevor
- ‘Cold And Sunny’ by Maeve Brennan
- ‘Mr. Salary’ by Sally Rooney
- ‘Naga’ by R.K. Narayan
- ‘Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes’ by M.J. Hyland
- ‘You Are My Dear Friend’ by Madhuri Vijay
- ‘Rape Fantasies’ by Margaret Atwood
- ‘The Leaf-Sweeper’ by Muriel Spark
- ‘Midnight Mass’ by Machado de Assis
- ‘A Voyage To Cythera’ by Margaret Drabble
- ‘American Dreams’ by Peter Carey
- ‘Weekend’ by Shirley Hazzard
- ‘The Homecoming’ by Rabindraneth Tagore
- ‘Spirit Of Christmas’ by Jeanette Winterson
- ‘Our Sleeping Lungs Opened To The Cold’ by Elizabeth Tan
- ‘You Are Happy?’ by Akhil Sharma
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