May was International Short Story Month.
This was the 7th year in a row where I read only short stories for the month of May.
Here is a complete chronological list of all the shorts I read in May, 2020 (106 stories in total).
| There Will Be Angels... by John Boden |
| Marlene the Magnificent by John Boden |
Bebbel by John McNee
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| This Be the Creation Story by Ben Arzate |
| The Country Musician by Ben Arzate |
| The Arranged Marriage by Ben Arzate |
| Alex Buys Coffee by Ben Arzate |
| The Phantom of Beguilement by W. H. Pugmire |
...but I was reminded of... by Ben
Arzate
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| Popcorn Planet by Kevin Strange |
| Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver |
| The One Who Took by Chad Lutzke |
| Exhalation by Ted Chiang |
| No Matter Which Way We Turned by Brian Evenson |
| John Four by Caitlin R. Kiernan |
| Dead Deanna by John McNee |
| The Rent is Due by Ben Arzate |
| Sleep by Haruki Murakami |
| The Obese Man Goes On A Diet by Ben Arzate |
| The Soda by Ben Arzate |
| The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saying Goodbye by Ben Arzate |
| Meth Lab Nursery by Ben Arzate |
| Channel 104 at 2:45 AM by Ben Arzate |
Two Sentence Horror Story by Ben Arzate
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| Alex Checks the Mail by Ben Arzate |
| Violent Bitch Hitomi by Ben Arzate |
| My Church by Ben Arzate |
| Water Music by Ben Arzate |
| Unreflected Text by Ben Arzate |
The Akihabara Strangler by Ben Arzate
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| Carnomancer, or The Meat Manager's Prerogative by Matthew M. Bartlett |
| Man Holding Razor Blade by John McNee |
| Please File Under Adult Contemporary by Ben Arzate |
| Sharp-Tongued by Ben Arzate |
| There Goes the Neighborhood by Ben Arzate |
| RealDoll Ballet by Ben Arzate |
| Slaughterhouse Sweetheart by John McNee |
| John Walks Into Bar by Ben Arzate |
| Cathy by Ben Arzate |
| Little Jimmy's Secret by Ben Arzate |
| Why You Should Always Tip the Pizza Guy by Ben Arzate |
| Last Night I Dreamt of Hell and High Waters by Ben Arzate |
| Deep Sea Diving Suit by Ben Arzate |
| Human Roach by Ben Arzate |
| Alex Watches Television by Ben Arzate |
| A Very Young Something with Wings by Ben Arzate |
| War Criminal: A One Act Play for One Performer by Ben Arzate |
Love: A Parable by Ben Arzate
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| The Hands that Reek and Smoke by W. H. Pugmire |
| Skunk Jr. by John McNee |
| A Stranger Dream by Chad Lutzke |
| The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe |
| Dutch Treat by Paul Cain |
| Spettrini by Matthew M. Bartlett |
| Tunnels by Tom Over |
| Computer Problems by Christopher Lesko |
| Pregnant by Kevin Strange |
| Spiderfuck by Kevin Strange |
The Secret by Chad Lutzke
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| Croatoan by Harlan Ellison |
| The Wetness by Tom Over |
| The Vegetarians by Tom Over |
| The Ceaseless Wave (1989) by Tom Over |
| Physical Media by Tom Over |
| The Tree on the Hill by H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel |
| A Murmur of Shadows by Tom over |
| The Happiest Thought by Tom Over |
| Phylum by Tom Over |
| The Embarassed Landscape (A Play) by Tom Over |
| The Portable Hum by Tom Over |
| The Comfort Zone by Tom Over |
| Millipede Dreams by Tom Over |
| The Lullaby Man by John McNee |
| ...Hungry...Rats by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. |
| What I Wouldn't Give by Chad Lutzke |
| Born Stillborn by Brian Evenson |
Catskin by Kelly Link
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| A View of the Woods by Flannery O'Connor |
| The Tomato Garden by Ben Arzate |
| Midnight at the Doom Cabaret by John McNee |
| Leaking Out by Brian Evenson |
| Everything Stuck to Him by Raymond Carver |
| The Zanies of Sorrow by W. H. Pugmire |
| One Dirt Road by K. Trap Jones |
| Fat by Raymond Carver |
| Working with the Little People by Harlan Ellison |
| Dust to Dust by W. H. Pugmire |
| Reaching People by Chad Lutzke |
| Following You Home by Matthew M. Bartlett |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver |
| Spicy Constellation by Chad Lutzke |
| One More Thing by Raymond Carver |
| Chocolate-Milk Mistake by Chad Lutzke |
| Mandebrot Moldrot by Lois H. Gresh |
| Four-Finger Discount by Chad Lutzke |
When It Rains... by Chad Lutzke
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| A Weekend Tradition by Chad Lutzke |
| TV Casualty by Chad Lutzke |
| Catch Him by Chad Lutzke |
| Roadkill by Patrick Freivald |
| I, DID (Or, On the Splitting of the Pineal Gland) by Ken Ammi |
| The House of Idiot Children by W. H. Pugmire and Maryanne K. Snyder |
| Beyond the Realm of Dream by W. H. Pugmire |
| Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson |
| No Abiding Place on Earth by Matthew M. Bartlett |
| The Second Door by Brian Evenson |
I didn't know May was short story month. Well, I did read three collections in May: Eternal Night by Benjamin Fouche, Frightful by Stephen Barnard, and Graymatter by Nicholas Gray.
ReplyDeleteGray has some crazy stuff in his collection. He's quite young. It'll be interesting to see how his writing develops as he gets older.