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I've a few reading goals for 2021. One of them is to try and read a short story for every day of the year. 365 stories. I know myself too well to think I'll read a story *every* day, so some days might be two or three. Anyway, going to keep an ongoing thread here!

1. "The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon" by Mori Ogai.

2. "Nine-Headed Birds" by K-Ming Chang. Available online at
https://www.vidaweb.org/vida-review-issue1-chang/

3. "Solution" by Brian Evenson. Available at @tordotcom
https://www.tor.com/2020/09/16/solution-brian-evenson/

4. "Ghosts and Empties" by Lauren Groff. Available online at @NewYorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/ghosts-and-empties/amp

5. "The Barber's Unhappiness" by George Saunders. Available online at @NewYorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/12/20/the-barbers-unhappiness/amp

6. "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Shamefully, I've since realised it's the first chapter of the novel, but it's still excellent and feels so compressed it could be an incredibly sad short story and not the lead in to an incredibly sad novel.

7. "The Gas Station" by Souvankham Thammavongsa. Available online at @parisreview
https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7376/the-gas-station-souvankham-thammavongsa

8. "North American Lake Monsters" by @NBallingrud.

9. "Emergency" by Denis Johnson. Available online https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stories-week-2014-2015/story-week/emergency-denis-johnson

10. "Hotel Monteleone" by Elise Blackwell. Available online: https://theoffingmag.com/micro/hotel-monteleone/

Hotel Monteleone | The Offing

Micro - The Offing Magazine

https://theoffingmag.com/micro/hotel-monteleone/

11. "Men Paid Me to Eat" by Natalie Lima. Available online: https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/men-paid-me-to-eat/

12. "A Case for De-Extinction at the End of the World" by Lyndsie Manusos.
Available online at: http://www.smokelong.com/a-case-for-de-extinction-at-the-end-of-the-world

13. Xiaogui / 小鬼 & "Arcadia" by K-Ming Chang. Available online at
https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/xiaogui-%e5%b0%8f%e9%ac%bc/

14. "Across the Rooftops" by Kevin Barry from DARK LIES THE ISLAND. Available online https://pen.org/across-the-rooftops/

15. "In a House Besieged" by Lydia Davis. Available online at @parisreview
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/04/05/in-a-house-besieged/

16. "The Best a Man Can Get" by Steven Arcieri. Available online at @hobartpulp https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/the-best-a-man-can-get

The Best a Man Can Get by Steven Arcieri

Shaving his neck to impress all his exes at the high school reunion, Jim nicked his jugular and died.

https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/the-best-a-man-can-get

17. "Siren Song" by Kent H. Dixon. Available online at @AntiochReview

http://review.antiochcollege.org/siren-song

18. "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned" by Wells Tower. Available online at @GrantaMag

https://granta.com/everything-ravaged-everything-burned/

19. "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" by Isabel Fall.

Available online through a lot of digging.

20. "Faeces in My Airbnb" by Gavin Corbett. Available from @stingingfly The Galway Edition.

21. "In the Cart" by Anton Chekhov. Available online at https://www.thefreshreads.com/in-the-cart/

22. "The Singers" by Ivan Turgenev. Available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8744/8744-h/8744-h.htm#chap17

23. "Heart's Blood" by Jasmine Sawers. Available online at https://barrenmagazine.com/hearts-blood

Heart’s Blood

Yes, I hate my sister Neoma. She’s always coming over and leaving coffee rings on my table —a particular decaf I have to special-order. She wears $45 lipstick called Heart’s…

https://barrenmagazine.com/hearts-blood

24. "The Cold Boy" by @Benjamin_Percy from SUICIDE WOODS.

25. "Psychobabble" by @CaoilinnHughes Available online at @themothmagazine https://www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=2121&page=35

26. "The Beginning of the Summation of Our Dead" by @blakebutler

Available online at https://getinkspired.com/en/story/1259/the-beginning-of-the-summation-of-our-dead/

27. "The Son's War" by @BlackFlaneur from DANCE ON SATURDAY.

Available online at @theoffingmag

https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/the-sons-war/

28. "Alien Virus Love Disaster" by @abbeyangry from ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER.

Don't think think it's online but @Danchaon excerpted it on @ElectricLit
https://electricliterature.com/dan-chaon-recommends-a-story-about-a-town-infected-by-progress-abbey-mei-otis/

29. "Foreigners" by Sam Shepard from GREAT DREAM OF HEAVEN.

30. "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid from THE VINTAGE BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

Available online from @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl

31. "Isabelle" by George Saunders from CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE

32. "A Small Fable" by Franz Kafka from THE ESSENTIAL KAFKA.

33. "Fishboy" by Mark Richard from THE ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD.

34. "Vapor Trail" by @CraigClevenger

Available online from @The_Rumpus https://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-sunday-rumpus-fiction-vapor-trail/

The Sunday Rumpus Fiction: Vapor Trail

“There’s days I think I’ll burn a year in Hell for every night Maria woke her momma and me, wanting to sleep with us, and I told her no, took her back to her room.” Acclaimed novelist C…

https://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-sunday-rumpus-fiction-vapor-trail/

35. "I Let You Out" by @thedesirina

Available online at @NightmareMag https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/i-let-you-out/

I Let You Out - Nightmare Magazine

I watch the closet door. I watch around them as they pray above me, their eyes closed and their hands clasped in ecstasy. Their voices drown out all other sounds---like, for instance, the creak of a...

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/i-let-you-out/

36. "Little Widow" by @MARIADAHVANA

Available online from @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/little-widow/

Little Widow - Nightmare Magazine

I was fourteen and at a sleepover when the cult drank poison. The sleepover mom turned on the TV and said “Oh my lord, Mary, would you look at this? It’s the feds is what, and a bomb, right out there...

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/little-widow/

37. "Sightings" by John Edgar Wideman.

Available online at @parisreview https://theparisreview.org/fiction/5423/sightings-john-edgar-wideman

Sightings

The first time it happened I could forgive myself. Cutting across the hall from my office and glimpsing a man—pale, wearing metal-rimmed glasses, a thin man in a light-colored rolled-sleeve shirt and...

https://theparisreview.org/fiction/5423/sightings-john-edgar-wideman

38. "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" by @her_nibsen

Available online from @NightmareMag https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-excerpts-from-an-annotated-bibliography-on-the-cannibal-women-of-ratnabar-island/

Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island - Nightmare...

“There are few tales as tragic as that of the denizens of Ratnabar Island. When a British expedition made landfall on its shores in 1891, they did so armed to the teeth, braced for the same hostile...

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-excerpts-from-an-annotated-bibliography-on-the-cannibal-women-of-ratnabar-island/

39. "November 1993" by
@writesforlife

Available online at @FrictionSeries

https://frictionlit.org/november-1993-by-jennifer-fliss/

40. "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov.

Available online http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Darl.shtml

41. "The Music of Erich Zann" by H.P. Lovecraft.

Available online at

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.aspx

42. "One Last Transformation" by @JoshMalerman from MISCREATIONS: GODS, MONSTROSITIES & OTHER HORRORS.

43/44. "Oranger" and "In Process" by Megan Martin.

Available online from @theoffingmag https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/oranger-and-in-process/

"ORANGER" and "IN PROCESS" | The Offing

Fiction - The Offing Magazine

https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/oranger-and-in-process/

45. "A Benediction of Corpses" by @SWytovich from MISCREATIONS: GODS, MONSTROSITIES, & OTHER HORRORS

46. "Hairy Legs and All" by @SGJ72

Available online from @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hairy-legs-and-all/

Hairy Legs and All - Nightmare Magazine

Like the time you put the shoes on you hadn’t worn for maybe two years but you just saw there in the corner of the closet and you wondered why you’d stopped wearing them since you kind of liked who...

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hairy-legs-and-all/

47. "The Dunwich Horror" by H.P Lovecraft collected in THE WEIRD

48. "Talking in the Dark" by Dennis Etchison.

Available online at @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/talking-dark/

Talking in the Dark - Nightmare Magazine

In the damp bedroom Victor Ripon sat hunched over his desk, making last-minute corrections on the ninth or tenth draft, he couldn’t remember which, of a letter to the one person in the world who...

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/talking-dark/

49. "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti from AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL TALES.

50. "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament" by Clive Barker from BOOKS OF BLOOD VOLUME TWO.

Available online -

https://humblebundle-a.akamaihd.net/misc/files/hashed/ba6c989a016bfa187db50096c6bc3fffebafe306.pdf

51. "Bug House" by Lisa Tuttle from NEST OF NIGHTMARES.

52. "Night Surf" by @StephenKing from AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL TALES.

53. "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury from AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL TALES.

54. "How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles" by Lord Dunsany from THE WEIRD.

55. "Dollburger" by Lisa Tuttle from NEST OF NIGHTMARES.

56. "A Song for Wounded Mouths" by Kristi Demeester collected in THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR: VOLUME TWELVE.

Available online from @Pseudopod_org

https://pseudopod.org/2019/03/29/pseudopod-641-ar5-a-song-for-wounded-mouths/

57. "Don't Come Looking" by @JackWestlake0 from BLACK STATIC ISSUE #72

58. "Postcards from Natalie" by @pinguinus available from THE DARK https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/postcards-from-natalie/

Postcards from Natalie - The Dark Magazine

Of the first six postcards from Natalie, I only have three. Mom was able to intercept the other three while I was at school or, after June, working a shift at the Tractor Supply Store. I wouldn’t...

https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/postcards-from-natalie/

59. "Red Light" by David J. Schow from SEEING RED.

I thought I saw it online but can't find the link anymore.

60. "Blood Rape of The Lust Ghouls" by David J. Schow from SEEING RED.

61. "Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo available online at @thedarkmagazine https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-among-the-trees/

Laughter Among the Trees - The Dark Magazine

The highway to the campground cuts through the granite Laurentian Plateau like a desiccated wound. It’s been twenty five years since I’ve retraced this road and, though the comfort stops along the...

https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-among-the-trees/

62. "The New Rays" by M. John Harrison from THE WEIRD.

63. "The Night Wire" by H. F Arnold from THE WEIRD.

64. "Teratisms" by @KatheKoja from DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR.

65. "That Which Crawls from Dark Soil" by Michael Kelly.

Available online from @NightmareMag https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/that-which-crawls-from-dark-soil/

That Which Crawls from Dark Soil - Nightmare Magazine

On a barren hiking trail this past summer, I caught a glimpse of what I thought was a young person just off the path, half-hiding, peering quizzically at me. The sun was blinding. I blinked and the...

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/that-which-crawls-from-dark-soil/

66. "Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th edition Regarding the Departed" by @stewartcbaker

Available online from @flashfictionmag https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/excerpt-diagnostic/

Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th edition Regarding the Departed

4.200 – Reuniting with Departed Lovers, Pets, and/or Network-enabled Electronic Devices, Alternate Methods for In some rare cases, the methods laid out by section 4.100 (Classic Necromantic R…

https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/excerpt-diagnostic/

67. "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" by @neilhimself collected in STORIES: All-New Tales.

68. "Heat" by @Rasnictem collected in DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR.

69. "The Circle Curse" by Fritz Leiber from SWORDS AGAINST DEATH.

Available online at

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0088/ERBAEN0088___1.htm

70. "The Jewels in the Forest" by Fritz Leiber from SWORDS AGAINST DEATH.

Available online here:

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0088/ERBAEN0088___2.htm

71. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury from THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.

Available online from https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

72. "A.G.A." by @SPMiskowski from STRANGE IS THE NIGHT.

73. "Not From Around Here" by David J. Schow from SEEING RED.

74. "The Neglected Garden" by @KatheKoja

Available online at @Weirdfictionrev

https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/07/the-neglected-garden/

75. "The Crevasse" by @NBallingrud with Dale Bailey from NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS.

76. "The Damned Thing" by @ChadLutzke.

Available online at http://thecultofme.blogspot.com/2014/09/september-short-fiction-contest-winners.html

77. "The Age of Reason" by Will Christopher Baer.

Available online from @coachellareview

http://thecoachellareview.com/archive/fiction/the-age-of-reason/

78. "Black Bark" by Brian Evenson from A COLLAPSE OF HORSES.

79 "A Report" by Brian Evenson from A COLLAPSE OF HORSES.

80. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson collected in COME ALONG WITH ME.

Available online from @NewYorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

81. "Black Hole" by @aliciahilton01

Available online @sciphijournal https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2021/03/24/black-hole/

Black Hole ~ Sci Phi Journal

Existential horror by Alicia Hilton.

https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2021/03/24/black-hole/

82. "The Second Floor" by S.P Miskowski from STRANGE IS THE NIGHT.

83. "The Shawl" by Louise Erdrich. Available online from @NewYorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/03/05/the-shawl-2/amp

The Shawl | The New Yorker

Short story about a young Anishinaabeg man and his family. The narrator recalls the legend of a woman named Aanakwad who bore a child for a man other than …

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/03/05/the-shawl-2/amp

84. "White Rabbits" by Leonora Carrington collected in THE WEIRD.

85. "In Paris, In The Mouth of Kronos" by @MrGaunt collected in SUPERNATURAL NOIR.

86. "Long Live the Girl Detective" by @megpillow on @ElectricLit https://electricliterature.com/long-live-the-girl-detective-by-megan-pillow/

Long Live the Girl Detective - Electric Literature

long-live-the-girl-detective-by-megan-pillow

https://electricliterature.com/long-live-the-girl-detective-by-megan-pillow/

87. "The Punish" by Brian Evenson from A COLLAPSE OF HORSES.

88. "These Are The Tools God Gave Us" by Mike McCormack collected in THE STINGING FLY: THE GALWAY 2020 EDITION from @stingingfly

89. "A Collapse of Horses" by Brian Evenson from A COLLAPSE OF HORSES.

90. "Three Indignities" by Brian Evenson from A COLLAPSE OF HORSES.

91. "The Spindly Man" by @SGJ72 from AFTER THE PEOPLE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OFF.

Available online from @thedarkmagazine

https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-spindly-man/

92. "Alligator Point" by @SPMiskowski collected in BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOL. 10.

Available online from @NightmareMag

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/alligator-point/

93. "The Dead Are Not" by Stephen Graham Jones from AFTER THE PEOPLE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OFF.

Available online from @BourbonPenn

https://www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/09/the-dead-are-not-by-stephen-graham-jones.php

94. "Lawns" by Mona Simpson from THE VINTAGE BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.

Available online here: https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3116&context=iowareview

95. "The Fat Girl" by Andre Dubus from THE VINTAGE BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.

96. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien from THE VINTAGE BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.

97. "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings" by Philip Roth collected in GOODBYE, COLUMBUS.

Available online at:

https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2014/11/you-cant-tell-man-by-song-he-sings.html#.YHbP1GeC8F0.twitter

98. "Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math" by @aimeepicchi

Available online from @DailySF

https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/other-worlds-fantasy/aimee-picchi/advanced-word-problems-in-portal-math

99. "Flypaper" by Robert Musil collected in FLYPAPER.

Available online at http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/flypaper/

100. "Upland Wildlife" by @rpveit from BLACK STATIC #78/79

101. "It Pours" by Sarena Ulibarri.

Available online at
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/ulibarri.htm

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