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Thunderstruck ~ Elizabeth McCracken This story was in the Best American Short Story anthology for 2015 after stunning readers in Story Quarterly – as it should have. McCracken gives a master class on point of view in this tale of a family who moves to Paris to cope with their rebellious teen. Sure, Helen is…
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The Swan ~ Ray Bradbury Let’s just start by saying I love this story. A little romance, a little feminism, a little hint of time travel or reincarnation, this story has it all. Bill runs into 95-year-old Helen. He had fallen in love with her one day when reading the local paper and seeing her…
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The Rats in the Walls ~ H.P. Lovecraft The lesson of this story: Don’t rebuild your home if it is on the site of a former priory of Cybele. Not if you don’t want to end up in prison for sacrificing a friend to evil and having him for a meal. Lovecraft is the master, after…
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Ah, the letter Q. The enemy of anyone who has ever traveled playing the alphabet game and banking on the fact that in one small Texas town on the way to Abilene, there is, in fact, Patrick Quince, Attorney at Law. A hero, no matter how well he practices law. I searched online and in…
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The Puglilist at Rest ~ Thom Jones I came across this story in my Joyce Carol Oates anthology, but you can read it for yourself at http://lithub.com. The Pugilist at Rest is partly inspired by the sculpture Boxer at Rest. A Vietnam-era Maine with a penchant for violence is packing up his memorabilia as he…
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Omakase ~ Weike Wang Surprisingly, I was able to find several stories that began with O, such as Octopus VII by Anna Reeser and Our Day of Grace, by Jim Shepherd. But I decided to go with a story by an Asian writer to help support voices I don’t normally read. So here we go. …
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The Necklace ~ Guy de Maupassant The Necklace, written in 1884, tells the old tale of the consequences of greed. Mathilde Loisel is the wife of a simple French Clerk. They are doing well enough to have a servant or two. They have plentiful meals, even if the table cloth is on its third day.…
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This month I am participating in the A to Z blog challenge. http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/ The challenge involves 26 posts in April, all somehow connected to the alphabet. My theme for the month is short stories. The Story Factory needs market research, of course, so I will be reading a short story for each letter of the alphabet…
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This month I am participating in the A to Z blog challenge. http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/ The challenge involves 26 posts in April, all somehow connected to the alphabet. My theme for the month is short stories. The Story Factory needs market research, of course, so I will be reading a short story for each letter of the alphabet…
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This month I am participating in the A to Z blog challenge. http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/ The challenge involves 26 posts in April, all somehow connected to the alphabet. My theme for the month is short stories. The Story Factory needs market research, of course, so I will be reading a short story for each letter of the alphabet…
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