I am way behind on my reviews, and not likely to find the time to do in-depth thoughts any time soon, so I thought I'd at least do a quick "final round-up."

353. Cries Beneath the Plaster by Steve Berman from TRYSTS. I somehow left this one out when I reviewed the book a few months back.

354. Love Hurts by Jim Butcher, from SIDE JOBS: Tales of ( Read more... )

Another batch of stories from Stephen King's Just After Sunset collection, listened to on the drive from home to Boston, and then from Boston to Hartford.

22. The Things They Left Behind, read by Ben Shenkman.  This story might not be to everyone's taste, as it is King's attempt to deal with the lingering emotional horror / baggage of the September ( Read more... )

The first two can be heard on the audiobook Road Rage, narrated by Stephen Lang.

121. Duel by Richard Matheson  This is a classic of the horror genre.  Told from the point of view of a driver on a back California road, who ends up in a fight for control of the road with a trucker whose face and thoughts we never see.  I wasn't impressed with Lang's ( 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... )

Picked up the latest (February 2008) issue of Harper's Magazine in the airport on the way to Charlotte, and there were three short fiction pieces in it.  One official short story, two other pieces.  And so, here are my thoughts:

The Compliance Branch by David Foster Wallace.  I haven't read any Wallace, but this short excerpt from his next novel, ( Read more... )