4th Quarter 2024
The 4th Quarter (Oct-Dec) stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘Peach Cobbler’ by Deesha Philyaw
- ‘The Pleasures Of Television’ by Rebecca Bernard
- ‘Pitch Memory’ by Ethan Canin
- ‘Hollywood Lanes’ by Megan Abbott
- ‘Former Marine’ by Russell Banks
- ‘Sarah Cole: A Type Of Love Story’ by Russell Banks
- ‘Eula’ by Deesha Philyaw
- ‘Rough Deeds’ by Annie Proulx
- ‘The Haunted And The Haunters’ by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- ‘Christmas At The Cross’ by Maeve Murphy
- ‘The Finkelstein 5’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- ‘A Country Christmas’ by Louisa May Alcott
- ‘The Ascent’ by Ron Rash
- ‘The Dune’ by Stephen King
- ‘First Dark’ by Elizabeth Spencer
- ‘The Music School’ by John Updike
- ‘It’s Like A Whisper’ by Megan Abbott
- ‘The Adventure Of The Musgrave Ritual’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
- ‘Oxford Girl’ by Megan Abbott
- ‘The Wind In The Rose-Bush’ by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- ‘Footfalls’ by Wilbur Daniel Steele
- ‘Monster’ by Michael Czyzniejewski
- ‘Our Eyes Couldn’t Stop Opening’ by Megan Abbott
- ‘The Wrong Man’ by Nella Larsen
- ‘We’ by Mary Grimm
- ‘Freedom’ by Nella Larsen
- ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury
- ‘The Wrong Shape’ by G.K. Chesterton
- ‘Today We Hit’ by Megan Abbott
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