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Short Story Month 2017
May is Short Story Month!
Just some of the books I plan on reading this month! 😀
Short Story of the Day – Days 91-120
April
Day 91: Victoria Redel’s “Red Rooster”
Day 92: Jonathan Escoffery’s “Chasing Carlos”
Day 93: Emma Cline’s “Northeast Regional”
Day 94: Clare Sestanovich’s “Phantom Vibrate”
Day 95: Christopher Fox’ “Junk”
Day 96: Amy Sauber’s “State Facts for the New Age”
Day 97: Olivia Clare’s “Olivia”
Day 98: Lucia Berlin’s “Homing”
Day 99: Chelsea Martin’s “Baby’s First Words”
Day 100: Curtis Dawkins’ “County”
Day 101: Rudrapriya Rathore’s “Heart Lake”
Day 102: Michelle Lyn King’s “Ghosts You Loved More”
Day 103: Hilary Leichter’s “Far Gone Conclusions”
Day 104: Kerry Cullen’s “Kindling”
Day 105: Tobias Wolff’s “Say Yes”
Day 106: Lindsay Hunter’s “The Fence”
Day 107: Lara Vapnyar’s “Deaf and Blind”
Day 108: Jenny Zhang’s “Why Were They Throwing Bricks?”
Day 109: Lauren Groff’s “Exquisite Corpse”
Day 110: Brandon Taylor’s “Wool”
Day 111: Tomiko Breland’s “What Is Behind”
Day 112: Erin Somers’ “Astronauts In Love”
Day 113: Julie Buntin’s “Phenomenon”
Day 114: Daisy Johnson’s “A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle”
Day 115: Amy Silverberg’s “Surburbia!”
Day 116: Kerry Cullen’s “Flight Feathers”
Day 117: Paul Yoon’s “A Willow and the Moon”
Day 118: Megan Cummin’s “Aerosol”
Day 119: Dana Diehl’s “Closer”
Day 120: Rachel Kushner’s “Debouchment”
Short Story of the Day – Days 60-90
March
Day 60: Clarice Lispector’s “Obsession”
Day 61: Stephanie Vaughn’s “Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog”
Day 62: Claire Vaye Watkins’ “Virginia City”
Day 63: Grace Paley’s “Friends”
Day 64: Mariana Enriquez’ “Spiderweb”
Day 65: Brandon Taylor’s “Frites”
Day 66: Clare Beams’ “The Drop”
Day 67: Susann Cokal’s “Fourteen Shakes the Baby”
Day 68: Jeannine Ouellette’s “Family, Family”
Day 69: Maryse Meijer’s “Home”
Day 70: Justin Taylor’s “A Talking Cure”
Day 71: Mary Gaitskill’s “Daisy’s Valentine”
Day 72: Clare Beams’ “We Show What We Have Learned”
Day 73: Jami Attenberg’s “Sarah Lee Waits For Love”
Day 74: Amanda Miska’s “Slow Wave”
Day 75: Emily St. John Mandel’s “Mr. Thursday”
Day 76: Phil Klay’s “Prayer In The Furnace”
Day 77: Jorge Luis Borges’ “Funes, His Memory”
Day 78: Kristen Arnett’s “Selectively Bred”
Day 79: Jenny Zhang’s “We Love You Crispina”
Day 80: Elizabeth Ellen’s “The Last American Woman”
Day 81: Shelly Oria’s “New York 1, Tel Aviv 0”
Day 82: Jen Corrigan’s “Have a Lovely Day”
Day 83: Melissa Ragsly’s “Crumbs”
Day 84: Mona Awad’s “My Mother’s Idea of Sexy”
Day 85: Brenna Gomez’ “Corzo”
Day 86: Kristen Gleason’s “Neftali”
Day 87: Rion Amilcar Scott’s “202 Checkmates”
Day 88: Deb Olin Unferth’s “Wait Till You See Me Dance”
Day 89: Laura van den Berg’s “Where We Must Be”
Day 90: Kara Vernor’s “Four Hands”
Short Story of the Day – Days 32-59
February
Day 32: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Black-Eyed Women”
Day 33: Joanna C. Valente’s “You Are Going To Lose Everything”
Day 34: Edwidge Danticat’s “Seven”
Day 35: Patricia Engel’s “Vida”
Day 36: Jo Ann Beard’s “The Tomb of Wrestling”
Day 37: Denis Johnson’s “Car Crash While Hitchhiking”
Day 38: Fiona Maazel’s “Let’s Go to the Videotape”
Day 39: Clarice Lispector’s “Jimmy and I”
Day 40: Ashley Strosnider’s “What Will Make It Last”
Day 41: Danielle Evans’ “Virgins”
Day 42: Claire Vaye Watkins’ “Wish You Were Here”
Day 43: Elizabeth Ellen’s “Winter Haven, Florida, 1984”
Day 44: Joanna C. Valente’s “You’re Gonna Scream When You Die”
Day 45: Junot Diaz’ “Otravida, Otravez”
Day 46: Jennifer Sears’ “Foragers”
Day 47: Leyna Krow’s “Katie Eats Boston Cream Pie at a Motel Diner in Southeast Portland”
Day 48: Ottessa Moshfegh’s “The Weirdos”
Day 49: Mary Miller’s “Fast Trains”
Day 50: Brandon Taylor’s “Run”
Day 51: Leyna Krow’s “Tiger, Tiger”
Day 52: Saeed Jones’ “Boy, A History”
Day 53: Ben Greenman’s “Barn (Nebraska, 1962)”
Day 54: Alexander Chee’s “Down to Mars”
Day 55: Melissa Yancy’s “Consider This Case”
Day 56: Karen E. Bender’s “A Chick from My Dream Life”
Day 57: Philip Roth’s “The Conversion of the Jews”
Day 58: Leesa Cross-Smith’s “Whiskey & Ribbons”
Day 59: Zadie Smith’s “Crazy They Call Me”
Short Story of the Day: Days 1-31
January
Day 1: SJ Sindu’s “SR-9”
Day 2: Rebecca Keith’s “Toast of New York”
Day 3: Yiyun Li’s “On The Street Where You Live”
Day 4: Kelli Jo Ford’s “You Will Miss Me When I Burn”
Day 5: Deirdre Coyle’s “How to Vomit Living Creatures”
Day 6: Emily Chammah’s “Tell Me, Please”
Day 7: Mary Miller’s “Cedars of Lebanon”
Day 8: Emma Horwitz’ “Fingering”
Day 9: Rion Amilcar Scott’s “A Friendly Game”
Day 10: Daniel Peña’s “Three Phases of Love and Deportation in Ciudad Juarez”
Day 11: April Ayers Lawson’s “Three Friends In a Hammock”
Day 12: Mary Miller’s “The House on Main Street”
Day 13: Allison Kade’s “The Purple Baby”
Day 14: Madeline Dubus’ “Godspeed”
Day 15: Annabel Graham’s “Celestial Bodies”
Day 16: Halimah Marcus’ “Running Alone”
Day 17: Deirdre Coyle’s “Girlfriend”
Day 18: Alisha Ebling’s “Hungry”
Day 19: Kate Axelrod’s “Comfort Pack”
Day 20: Ruth Madievsky’s “Hamster”
Day 21: Julianne Pachico’s “Honey Bunny”
Day 22: Maggie Shipstead’s “Backcountry”
Day 23: Ottessa Moshfegh’s “An Honest Woman”
Day 24: Alix Ohlin’s “Quarantine”
Day 25: Patricia Engel’s “Lucho”
Day 26: Kait Heacock’s “The Girl”
Day 27: Brenda Peynado’s “The Drownings”
Day 28: Chanelle Benz’ “West of the Known”
Day 29: Kristen Arnett’s “Felt in the Jaw”
Day 30: Grace Paley’s “The Little Girl”
Day 31: Kate Folk’s “A Scale Model of Gull Point”
