Stories

76. Limo by Neal Barrett, Jr. from Subterranean Magazine Online Summer 2009 issue. I've read one other story by Barrett, in the anthology Wastelands. Looking back, that post-apocalyptic story worked for me.  This entry, in the horror genre, worked for me as well.  It's dialogue-heavy at the start but then becomes action-packed and takes a ( Read more... )

The February - May issue of The Strand magazine (www.strandmag.com) boasts  "new" stories by Mark Twain and PG Wodehouse (as in previously unpublished, not ghost-written (or should that be written by ghost), as well as a great interview with Christopher Plummer.

55. "The Undertaker's Tale" by Mark Twain.  It's been a while since I've read Twain, ( Read more... )

 I survived and completed NaNoWriMo. So now back to reading short stories and posting about them in this here LJ.

All from the Penguin Anthology as in my last entry.

142. "Abitibi Canyon" -Joseph Boyden
This writer just won the Giller Prize for his latest novel and his previous novel is already being studied in academia. Not bad for a relative ( Read more... )

The next stories (28-43) are from Faery! edited by Terri Windling

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I thought I would get briefly away from my usual fantasy or ghostly short stories and try something else for a change. These two stories come from The Penguin Book of Modern Women’s Short Stories edited by Susan Hill.

The first story in the collection is The Devastating Boys by Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress). I find it interesting to note ( Read more... )