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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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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 10: “A Distant Episode” by Paul Bowles

Steven Beattie May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

In a prelude to his iconic novel, Bowles offers up a tale of a hubristic
American academic who has the tables turned on him during a trip to North Africa.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 9: “An Orchid, Blooming” by Kathy Friedman

Steven Beattie May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 CanLit, Short Fiction

In Friedman’s story, family secrets, like orchids, flourish in darkness.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 8: “A Survey of Recent American Happenings Told Through Six Commercials for the Tennyson Clearjet Premium Touchless Bidet” by Omar El Akkad

Steven Beattie May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 CanLit, International Literature, Short Fiction

In a brief and barbed satire, Giller winner Omar El Akkad links our current geopolitical malaise with the capitalist impulse to sell stuff.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 7: “Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy’s Curse” by Louisa May Alcott

Steven Beattie May 7, 2022May 7, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

The author of Little Women was also an aficionado of “blood and thunder,” a mode represented in this story about grave robbing and its attendant consequences.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 6: “The Trap” by Luigi Pirandello; Giovanni R. Bussino, trans.

Steven Beattie May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

Pirandello’s story takes up the writer and dramatist’s great theme: the instability of identity and the untrustworthy nature of physical reality.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 5: “Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri

Steven Beattie May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 International Literature, Short Fiction

Lahiri’s story excavates the emotional toll on a woman who is carrying on an affair with a married man.

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