Invitation accepted!
*reads*
Errrrr.....yeah. Odd, as you said.
I’m really glad you read them! I keep thinking about them—I don’t exactly like them, and I certainly couldn’t read a lot of it at once, but it has stuck with me, and what more can you ask as a writer but that you stick with your readers?
As for me, a little more spelunking in open browser tabs:
88. "Field Survey," Matthew Zanoni Müller, in Southeast Review (2019)
A rather sweet story about an earnest, peculiar young woman trying to navigate dating life.
89. "Possible Wildlife in Road," Jen Fawkes, in Storysouth (2019)
Oof. This is a deeply sad and very heavy story, beautifully written with layers and connections from top to bottom. I’m a little too sleepy to try and summarize it right now, but it’s going on my favorites for the year. Very moving.
Goal for 2019: 100 short stories
Favorites of the year:
1. “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” Jean Stafford, in The New Yorker (1948)
9. “William Wilson,” Edgar Allen Poe, in Tales of Mystery and Imagination
12. “The Good Deaths, Part II,” Angela Ambroz, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (2014)
24. "A whale, a tree, a vine," Sarah Norek, in West Branch (2018)
28. “American Gothic,” Dan Moreau, in Third Coast (2018)
31. “Cut,” Catherine Lacey, in The New Yorker (2019)
51. "The Sinkhole," Joyce Li, in Brooklyn Review (2018)
52. "Paper House," Stefan Kiesbye, in Delay (2019)
54. "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment," Mary McCarthy, in The Company She Keeps (1942)
65. "Boys Go to Jupiter," Danielle Evans, in Best American Short Stories 2018
68. "Come on, Silver," Ann Glaviano, in Best American Short Stories 2018
75. "A Big True," Dina Nayeri, in Best American Short Stories 2018
89. "Possible Wildlife in Road," Jen Fawkes, in Storysouth (2019)
My list of stories from the first half of the year is here.