31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 29: “Book Review” by Nancy Hale
Nancy Hale’s story about the dangers of poisonous political ideologies is surprisingly relevant to our current moment.
31 Days of Stories 2020: Day 28: “South Congress” by Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington’s story is about a veteran drug dealer who becomes a kind of surrogate father to an undocumented Guatemalan teen.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 27: “Baby Jesus and the Intruder” by Elise Levine
Elise Levine, sui generis.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 26: “Ships in High Transit” by Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina’s story is about the performative cultural roles people are expected to play.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 25: “Petty Theft” by Adrian Michael Kelly
Adrian Michael Kelly uses a train ride as a means to examine a character who is much less upright than he at first appears.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 24: “Sardonicus” by Ray Russell
Ray Russell’s 1961 modern Gothic tale has lost none of its power to shock its reader.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 23: “The Art of Shipbuilding” by Tyler Keevil
Tyler Keevil’s brief two-hander is a parable about what it takes to be an artist.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 22: “Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country” by Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods’s expressionistic story is about feeling like an outcast in the place you were born.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 21: “For Smokers Only” by Julio Ramón Ribeyro; Katherine Silver, trans.
Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s semi-autobiographical story investigates the metaphysical pleasures a smoker finds in cigarettes.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 20: “Mani Pedi” by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Souvankham Thammavongsa’s story is a multi-layered tale of a former boxer who takes a job at his sister’s nail salon.