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... )

Some stories from CDs:

162. LT's Theory Of Pets, written and read by Stephen King (live in front of an audience at the Royal Albert Hall).  This is another of King's "not quite horror but with some cringing moments" stories, and thus fits in well with the longer "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Body" as pieces that are about character first.  Any ( Read more... )

Trying to catch up.  I've done lots of reading, just not a lot of posting.

This short batch from fairly recent issues of The New Yorker (most of these are still on the magazine's website):

146: Full Glass by John Updike (May 26, 2008 issue):  I have a very hit-or-miss relationship with John Updike stories.  This one was more of a hit.  A retired man ( Read more... )

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Okay, since I started this thing, I suppose I should go first.  My first three stories of the year have been:

1. Outage by John Updike from the 01/07/08 issue of The New Yorker.  I have to say, I'm not a huge John Updike fan (maybe I was forced to read "A&P" too many times in high school), and this one kind of left me cold.  It takes place in a sort ( Read more... )