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We've Got 30 Stories for January

We've Got 30 Stories for January

And a PDF Booklet to Keep Track!

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Hello! Guess what? WI have the entire list of stories for January, so gather your books, your links, and your library holds and get ready to go. Whether you want to keep up with every single story (very ambitious) or read a story or two a week, I am so excited to have you along for 365 Stories.

Here are the last 15 stories for January (some of these were suggested by YOU). If you want to see the first fifteen, go here:

Socially Awkward
How Many Short Stories, Which Short Stories
Did you hear? I am reading a short story a day for 2022. Being a fiction writer (who has been working on a nonfiction book for the past couple years) I have read my share of short stories. I’ve also taught a bunch of short stories. But I’m not limiting myself to stories I’ve never read in 2022. I will read as many stories as I can, whether I’ve read the…
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4 years ago · 1 like · 59 comments · Stacy Selby
  1. Jorge Luis Borges, "The Aleph"

  2. Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

  3. Nikolay Gogol's "The Nose"

  4. Mariana Enríquez, "Spiderweb"

  5. Su Sin Far, "Mrs. Spring Frangrance"

  6. Alicia Elliot, "Unearth"

  7. Fay Weldon, "Weekend"

  8. Ray Bradbury, "The Veldt"

  9. Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"

  10. Leo Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilych"

  11. Leo Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilych"

  12. Zadie Smith, "The Embassy of Cambodia"

  13. Lydia Davis, "The Outing"

  14. Hugh Behm-Steinberg, “Taylor Swift”

  15. Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"

  16. TBD

You’ll notice that I snuck a novella in there (“The Death of Ivan Ilych”), and I did that because I …

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