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31 Days of Stories 2021

Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 31: “Precious Bane” by Gerald Murnane

May 31, 2021June 14, 2022

A Borgesian story about literary posterity and the fickleness of memory, from an Australian master.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 30: “Gazebo” by Raymond Carver

May 30, 2021June 14, 2022

A powerful monument to what the short form is capable of from “the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century.”

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 29: “Abortion, A Love Story” by Nicole Flattery

May 29, 2021June 14, 2022

Irish author Flattery’s novella-length story is an enthusiastic evisceration of the patriarchy and institutional pomposity.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 28: “The Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad

May 28, 2021June 14, 2022

Conrad’s story is at once a version of a doppelgänger story and an examination of repressed psychology and moral ambiguity.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 27: “The Book About the Bear” by John O’Neill

May 27, 2021June 14, 2022

In Atwoodian terms, O’Neill’s story represents a conflation of doomed animals and survival.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 26: “Safeword” by R.O. Kwon and “Scissors” by Kim Fu

May 26, 2021June 14, 2022

Two stories about pleasure and pain interrogate the nature of trust and what we risk when we relinquish control.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 25: “Violations” by Catherine Lacey

May 25, 2021June 14, 2022

“Violations” is a story that instructs its reader how to read it even as it is unfolding on the page.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 24: “The Americans” by Viet Thanh Nguyen

May 24, 2021June 14, 2022

The interplay among the characters in Nguyen’s story dramatizes the prickly concerns that crop up in the face of cultural conflicts and commingled histories.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 23: “How Myrna Survives” by Diane Schoemperlen

May 23, 2021June 14, 2022

Diane Schoemperlen’s plaintive tale is about what happens when youthful promise gives way to the creeping disillusion of adulthood.

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31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 22: “Furry Night” by Joan Aiken

May 22, 2021June 14, 2022

A fantastical story with origins in myth and fairy tale, Aiken’s narrative imagines the world’s greatest Shakespearean actor as a werewolf.

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