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31 Days of Stories 2022

Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

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

May 19, 2022June 14, 2022

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.

May 18, 2022June 14, 2022

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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Brief EncountersCanLitShort Fiction

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

May 17, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 16, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 15, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 14, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 13, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 12, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 11, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 10, 2022June 14, 2022

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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