I& #39;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& #39;ll read a story *every* day, so some days might be two or three. Anyway, going to keep an ongoing thread here!
2. "Nine-Headed Birds" by K-Ming Chang. Available online at
https://www.vidaweb.org/vida-review-issue1-chang/">https://www.vidaweb.org/vida-revi...
https://www.vidaweb.org/vida-review-issue1-chang/">https://www.vidaweb.org/vida-revi...
3. "Solution" by Brian Evenson. Available at @tordotcom
https://www.tor.com/2020/09/16/solution-brian-evenson/">https://www.tor.com/2020/09/1...
https://www.tor.com/2020/09/16/solution-brian-evenson/">https://www.tor.com/2020/09/1...
4. "Ghosts and Empties" by Lauren Groff. Available online at @NewYorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/ghosts-and-empties/amp">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/ghosts-and-empties/amp">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
5. "The Barber& #39;s Unhappiness" by George Saunders. Available online at @NewYorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/12/20/the-barbers-unhappiness/amp">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/12/20/the-barbers-unhappiness/amp">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
6. "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Shamefully, I& #39;ve since realised it& #39;s the first chapter of the novel, but it& #39;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">https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7...
https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7376/the-gas-station-souvankham-thammavongsa">https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7...
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">https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/st...
10. "Hotel Monteleone" by Elise Blackwell. Available online: https://theoffingmag.com/micro/hotel-monteleone/">https://theoffingmag.com/micro/hot...
11. "Men Paid Me to Eat" by Natalie Lima. Available online: https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/men-paid-me-to-eat/">https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/m...
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">https://www.smokelong.com/a-case-fo...
Available online at: http://www.smokelong.com/a-case-for-de-extinction-at-the-end-of-the-world">https://www.smokelong.com/a-case-fo...
13. Xiaogui / 小鬼 & "Arcadia" by K-Ming Chang. Available online at
https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/xiaogui-%e5%b0%8f%e9%ac%bc/">https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/x...
https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/xiaogui-%e5%b0%8f%e9%ac%bc/">https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/x...
14. "Across the Rooftops" by Kevin Barry from DARK LIES THE ISLAND. Available online https://pen.org/across-the-rooftops/">https://pen.org/across-th...
15. "In a House Besieged" by Lydia Davis. Available online at @parisreview
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/04/05/in-a-house-besieged/">https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/04/05/in-a-house-besieged/">https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016...
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">https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_featu...
17. "Siren Song" by Kent H. Dixon. Available online at @AntiochReview
http://review.antiochcollege.org/siren-song ">https://review.antiochcollege.org/siren-son...
http://review.antiochcollege.org/siren-song ">https://review.antiochcollege.org/siren-son...
18. "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned" by Wells Tower. Available online at @GrantaMag
https://granta.com/everything-ravaged-everything-burned/">https://granta.com/everythin...
https://granta.com/everything-ravaged-everything-burned/">https://granta.com/everythin...
19. "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" by Isabel Fall.
Available online through a lot of digging.
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/ ">https://www.thefreshreads.com/in-the-ca...
22. "The Singers" by Ivan Turgenev. Available online at #chap17">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8744/8744-h/8744-h.htm #chap17">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/874...
23. "Heart& #39;s Blood" by Jasmine Sawers. Available online at https://barrenmagazine.com/hearts-blood ">https://barrenmagazine.com/hearts-bl...
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">https://www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.a...
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/">https://getinkspired.com/en/story/...
Available online at https://getinkspired.com/en/story/1259/the-beginning-of-the-summation-of-our-dead/">https://getinkspired.com/en/story/...
27. "The Son& #39;s War" by @BlackFlaneur from DANCE ON SATURDAY.
Available online at @theoffingmag
https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/the-sons-war/">https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/t...
Available online at @theoffingmag
https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/the-sons-war/">https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/t...
28. "Alien Virus Love Disaster" by @abbeyangry from ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER.
Don& #39;t think think it& #39;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/">https://electricliterature.com/dan-chaon...
Don& #39;t think think it& #39;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/">https://electricliterature.com/dan-chaon...
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">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
Available online from @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
34. "Vapor Trail" by @CraigClevenger
Available online from @The_Rumpus https://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-sunday-rumpus-fiction-vapor-trail/">https://therumpus.net/2014/01/t...
Available online from @The_Rumpus https://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-sunday-rumpus-fiction-vapor-trail/">https://therumpus.net/2014/01/t...
35. "I Let You Out" by @thedesirina
Available online at @NightmareMag https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/i-let-you-out/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/i...
Available online at @NightmareMag https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/i-let-you-out/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/i...
36. "Little Widow" by @MARIADAHVANA
Available online from @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/little-widow/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/l...
Available online from @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/little-widow/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/l...
37. "Sightings" by John Edgar Wideman.
Available online at @parisreview https://theparisreview.org/fiction/5423/sightings-john-edgar-wideman">https://theparisreview.org/fiction/5...
Available online at @parisreview https://theparisreview.org/fiction/5423/sightings-john-edgar-wideman">https://theparisreview.org/fiction/5...
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/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/t...
Available online from @NightmareMag https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-excerpts-from-an-annotated-bibliography-on-the-cannibal-women-of-ratnabar-island/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/t...
39. "November 1993" by
@writesforlife
Available online at @FrictionSeries
https://frictionlit.org/november-1993-by-jennifer-fliss/">https://frictionlit.org/november-...
@writesforlife
Available online at @FrictionSeries
https://frictionlit.org/november-1993-by-jennifer-fliss/">https://frictionlit.org/november-...
40. "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov.
Available online http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Darl.shtml">https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-sto...
Available online http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Darl.shtml">https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-sto...
41. "The Music of Erich Zann" by H.P. Lovecraft.
Available online at
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.aspx">https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/...
Available online at
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.aspx">https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/...
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/">https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/o...
Available online from @theoffingmag https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/oranger-and-in-process/">https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/o...
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/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/h...
Available online from @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hairy-legs-and-all/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/h...
48. "Talking in the Dark" by Dennis Etchison.
Available online at @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/talking-dark/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/t...
Available online at @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/talking-dark/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/t...
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">https://humblebundle-a.akamaihd.net/misc/file...
Available online -
https://humblebundle-a.akamaihd.net/misc/files/hashed/ba6c989a016bfa187db50096c6bc3fffebafe306.pdf">https://humblebundle-a.akamaihd.net/misc/file...
52. "Night Surf" by @StephenKing from AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL TALES.
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/">https://pseudopod.org/2019/03/2...
Available online from @Pseudopod_org
https://pseudopod.org/2019/03/29/pseudopod-641-ar5-a-song-for-wounded-mouths/">https://pseudopod.org/2019/03/2...
58. "Postcards from Natalie" by @pinguinus available from THE DARK https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/postcards-from-natalie/">https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/postcards...
59. "Red Light" by David J. Schow from SEEING RED.
I thought I saw it online but can& #39;t find the link anymore.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😭" title="Laut schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Laut schreiendes Gesicht">
I thought I saw it online but can& #39;t find the link anymore.
61. "Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo available online at @thedarkmagazine https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-among-the-trees/">https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-...
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/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/t...
Available online from @NightmareMag https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/that-which-crawls-from-dark-soil/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/t...
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/">https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/e...
Available online from @flashfictionmag https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/excerpt-diagnostic/">https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/e...
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">https://www.baen.com/Chapters/...
Available online at
https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0088/ERBAEN0088___1.htm">https://www.baen.com/Chapters/...
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">https://www.baen.com/Chapters/...
Available online here:
https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0088/ERBAEN0088___2.htm">https://www.baen.com/Chapters/...
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">https://www.btboces.org/Downloads...
Available online from https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf">https://www.btboces.org/Downloads...
72. "A.G.A." by @SPMiskowski from STRANGE IS THE NIGHT.
74. "The Neglected Garden" by @KatheKoja
Available online at @Weirdfictionrev
https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/07/the-neglected-garden/">https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/07/t...
Available online at @Weirdfictionrev
https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/07/the-neglected-garden/">https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/07/t...
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">https://thecultofme.blogspot.com/2014/09/s...
Available online at http://thecultofme.blogspot.com/2014/09/september-short-fiction-contest-winners.html">https://thecultofme.blogspot.com/2014/09/s...
77. "The Age of Reason" by Will Christopher Baer.
Available online from @coachellareview
http://thecoachellareview.com/archive/fiction/the-age-of-reason/">https://thecoachellareview.com/archive/f...
Available online from @coachellareview
http://thecoachellareview.com/archive/fiction/the-age-of-reason/">https://thecoachellareview.com/archive/f...
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">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
Available online from @NewYorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
81. "Black Hole" by @aliciahilton01
Available online @sciphijournal https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2021/03/24/black-hole/">https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php...
Available online @sciphijournal https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2021/03/24/black-hole/">https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php...
83. "The Shawl" by Louise Erdrich. Available online from @NewYorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/03/05/the-shawl-2/amp">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
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/">https://electricliterature.com/long-live...
88. "These Are The Tools God Gave Us" by Mike McCormack collected in THE STINGING FLY: THE GALWAY 2020 EDITION from @stingingfly
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/">https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-spind...
Available online from @thedarkmagazine
https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-spindly-man/">https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-spind...
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/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a...
Available online from @NightmareMag
http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/alligator-point/">https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a...
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">https://www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/09/...
Available online from @BourbonPenn
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/09/the-dead-are-not-by-stephen-graham-jones.php">https://www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/09/...
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">https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewc...
Available online here: https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3116&context=iowareview">https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewc...
96. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O& #39;Brien from THE VINTAGE BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.
97. "You Can& #39;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">https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2014/11/y...
Available online at:
https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2014/11/you-cant-tell-man-by-song-he-sings.html#.YHbP1GeC8F0.twitter">https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2014/11/y...
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">https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/o...
Available online from @DailySF
https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/other-worlds-fantasy/aimee-picchi/advanced-word-problems-in-portal-math">https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/o...
99. "Flypaper" by Robert Musil collected in FLYPAPER.
Available online at http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/flypaper/">https://benmarcus.com/smallwork...
Available online at http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/flypaper/">https://benmarcus.com/smallwork...
101. "It Pours" by Sarena Ulibarri.
Available online at
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/ulibarri.htm ">https://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/ulibarri....
Available online at
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/ulibarri.htm ">https://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/ulibarri....