Short Fiction 2012

100 Shots of Short Challenge

100 Shots of Short Challenge

1.  ”Killings” (Andre Dubus)
2. “The Winter Father” (Andre Dubus)
3. “Rose” (one of the best short stories I’ve ever read in my life). (Andre Dubus)
4. “The Fat Girl” (Andre Dubus)
5. “Delivering” (Andre Dubus)
6. “A Father’s Story” (Andre Dubus)
7. “All the Time in the World” (Andre Dubus)
8. “How to Be an Other Woman What is Seized” (Lorrie Moore)
9. “The Kid’s Guide to Divorce” (Lorrie Moore)
10. “How” (Lorrie Moore)
11. “Go Like This” (Lorrie Moore)
12. “How to Talk to your Mother (Notes)” (Lorrie Moore)
13. “Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love” (Lorrie Moore)
14. “How to Become a Writer” READ HERE (Lorrie Moore)
15. “To Fill” (Lorrie Moore)
16. “Thirty Girls” – Susan Minot (Granta 118 Exit Strategies)
17. “The Beginner’s Goodbye” – Anne Tyler (Granta 118 Exit Strategies)
18. “In Sight of the Lake” – Alice Munro (Granta 118 Exit Strategies)
19. “The Behavior of Hawkweeds” (Andrea Barrett)
20. “The English Pupil” (Andrea Barrett)
21. “The Littoral Zone” (Andrea Barrett)
22. “Rare Bird” (Andrea Barrett)
23. “Soroche” (Andrea Barrett)
24. “Birds with No Feet” (Andrea Barrett)
25. “The Marburg Sisters” (Andrea Barrett)
26. “Ship Fever” (Andrea Barrett)
27. “Racing Cancer” – Cortney Phillips Link Here (Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine)
28. “Oranges, Orchids, Bromeliads” – Lauren Tamraz Link Here (Bluestem Magazine)
29. “Bullhead” – Leigh Allison Wilson (Flash Fiction Forward)
30. “Words” – John A. McCaffrey (Flash Fiction Forward)
31. “How to End Up” – Jennifer A. Howard (Flash Fiction Forward)
32. “To Reduce Your Likelihood of Murder” – Ander Monson (Flash Fiction Forward)
33. “The Doctor” – Ann Hood (Flash Fiction Forward)
34. “Crazy Glue” – Etgar Keret (Flash Fiction Forward)
35. “Parrot Talk” – Kit Coyne Irwin (Flash Fiction Forward)
36. “Birth” – Robert Earle (Flash Fiction Forward)
37. “Drawer” – Rick Moody (Flash Fiction Forward)
38. “Baby Stories” – Jane Carman (Devil’s Lake) LINK HERE
39. (NONFICTION) “Undoings: An Essay in Three Parts” – Charles Baxter (Colorado Review)  EXCERPT
40. “Lineage” – Andrea Dupree (Colorado Review) LINK HERE
41. (NONFICTION) “The Fourth State of Matter” – Jo Ann Beard (New Yorker) LINK HERE
42. (NONFICTION) “The Pain Scale” – Eula Bliss (Seneca Review) LINK HERE
43. (NONFICTION) “Torch Song” – Charles Bowden (Harper’s) LINK HERE
44. (NONFICTION) “Physical Evidence” – Kelly Gray Carlisle (River Teeth)
45. (NONFICTION) “The Glass Essay” – Anne Carson LINK HERE
46. (NONFICTION) “Burl’s” – Bernard Cooper (Los Angelos Times) LINK HERE
47. (NONFICTION) “Living Like Weasels” – Annie Dillard LINK HERE
48. (NONFICTION) “Return to Sender” – Mark Doty LINK HERE
49. (NONFICTION) “Leap” – Brian Doyle LINK HERE
50. (NONFICTION) “Kissing” – Anthony Farrington
51. (NONFICTION) “Beautiful City of Tirzah” – Harrison Candelaria Fletcher LINK HERE
52. (NONFICTION) “Mirrorings” – Lucy Grealy LINK HERE
53. (NONFICTION) “High Tide in Tucson” – Barbara Kingsolver LINK HERE
54. (NONFICTION) “The Essayish is Sorry for Your Loss” – Sara Levine