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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 20: “Glory” by Janice Lynn Mather

Steven Beattie May 20, 2022May 20, 2022 CanLit, Short Fiction

This story, about a teenage girl sent to live with her grandmother during the final months of her pregnancy, is about a struggle between conflicting notions contained in the title.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 19: “Happy Birthday” by Clarice Lispector; Katrina Dodson, trans.

Steven Beattie May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

From the woman who many consider to be Brazil’s greatest writer, a story about the family party from hell.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 18: “A Man Becomes a Nazi” by Anna Seghers; Margo Bettauer Dembo, trans.

Steven Beattie May 18, 2022May 19, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

Seghers’s story, about the conditions necessary for an unhappy man to become radicalized, holds pressing lessons for our current historical moment.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 17: “Once Removed” by Alexander MacLeod

Steven Beattie May 17, 2022 CanLit, Short Fiction

Like Alice Munro, MacLeod has the ability to build whole lives in a compressed space and to subtly shift a story’s focus and meaning without apparent effort.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 16: “A Cup of Cold Water” by Edith Wharton

Steven Beattie May 16, 2022May 17, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

Wharton’s story is an examination of the vacuity that attaches to the wealthiest strata of society and one man’s unsuccessful attempt to climb the social ladder.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 15: “Little Miss Marker” by Damon Runyon

Steven Beattie May 15, 2022May 15, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

Set in a mythical Depression-era New York City, the story centres on a bookie who becomes an unwitting father figure to a young girl who is offered as a marker on a bet.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 14: “Devotion” by Sharon English

Steven Beattie May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 CanLit, International Literature

English’s story excavates the chasm that exists between two halves of a couple, a gulf that is exposed by the death of the pair’s dog.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 13: “Dread” by Clive Barker

Steven Beattie May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

Barker’s psychologically tense story examines the price we pay for confronting our darkest fears.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 12: “The Stunt” by Michael LaPointe

Steven Beattie May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 CanLit, Short Fiction

In this chilly story, three men do battle for the soul of a fifteen-year-old film star.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 11: “Come and Get Your Ice Cream, Motherfuckers” by Francine Cunningham

Steven Beattie May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 CanLit, Short Fiction

An ice cream truck driver faces mental anguish resulting from his inability to escape the incessant jingle of his vehicle’s music.

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