Sunday, January 12, 2014

2014 - A Short Story a Day

I have to start (probably) on Monday 13th., but will catch up so that by the end of April I will be AHEAD of one a day.


01 Walker Brothers Cowboy (Alice Munro - Dance of the Happy Shades)
02 The Dwarf (Ray Bradbury - The October Country)
03 WAS (William Faulkner - Go Down Moses)
04 Midsummer Madness (Stories of Sean O'Faolain)
05 A Silver Dish (Saul Bellow - Collected Stories)
06 Do You Love Me? (Peter Carey - Collected Stories)
07 Goodbye My Brother (The Stories of John Cheever)
08 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (Ernest Hemingway)
09 Teddy (Salinger)
10 The Shining Houses (AM - DotHS)

11 The Twenty-Seventh Man (Nathan Englander - For the Relief of Unbearable Urges)
12 Go Down Moses  (William Faulkner - Go Down Moses)
13 The last Days of a Famous Mime. (Peter Carey - Collected Stories)
14 Fugue (Stories of Sean O'Faolain)
15 The Ledge (Lawrence Sergeant Hall - Best American Short Stories of the Century)
16 Kristu Du (Peter Carey - Collected Stories)
17 A Small Good Thing (Raymond Carver)
18 The Bath (Raymond Carver)
19 Images (AM - DotHS)
20 Thanks for the Ride (AM - DotHS)

21 Hills Like White Elephants (Hemingway)
22 Crabs (Peter Carey - Collected Stories)
23 The Office (AM - DotHS)
24 Something to Remember Me By (Saul Bellow Collected Stories)
25 A Clean Well-Lighted Place (Hemingway)
26 An Ounce of Cure (AM - DotHS)
27 The Half-Skinned Deer (Annie Proulx - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
28 Work (Denis Johnson - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
29 The Time of Death (AM - DotHS)
30 Tumblers (Nathan Englander FtRoUU and - Granta Book of the American Short Story)

31 Civil War Land in Bad Decline (George Saunders - - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
32 Day of the Butterfly (AM - DotHS)
33 A Romantic Weekend (Mary Gaitskill - - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
34 Ladies in Spring (Eudora Welty - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
35 Boys & Girls (AM - DotHS)
36 Reunion (John Cheever, Collected and -Granta Book of the American Short Story)
37 Ship Island, the Story of a Mermaid (Elizabeth Spencer - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
38 Friends (Grace Paley - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
39 Postcard (AM - DotHS)
40 The Artificial Nigger ((Flannery O'Coonor - Granta Book of the American Short Story)

41 Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired (Richard Yates - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
42 Me and Mrs Mandible (Donald Barthelme - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
43 Red Dress - 1946. (AM - DotHS)
44 Natural Color (John Updike - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
45 Killings (Andre Dubus - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
46 Under the Pitons (Robert Stone?)
47 Sunday Afternoon (AM - DotHS)
48 Helping (Robert Stone - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
49 Errand (Raymond Carver)
50 Where is Here? (Joyce Carol Oates - Granta Book of the American Short Story)

51 A Trip to the Coast (AM - DotHS)
52 The Management of Grief Bharati Mukherjee - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
53 The Palatski man (Stuart Dybek - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
54 The Light of the World (Hemingway)
55 Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
56 The Peace of Utrecht (AM - DotHS)
57 Get Some Young (Barry Hannah - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
58 The Farm (Joy Williams - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
59 Mr Green (Robert Olen Butler - Granta Book of the American Short Story)
60 Dance of the Happy Shades (AM - DotHS)

That is my DUTY list to the end of February, and it's my minimum, at least two reads and a critical response per story

There may well be more, but these I WILL DO!

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