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31 Days of Stories 2022

Brief EncountersCanLitShort Fiction

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

May 9, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 8, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 7, 2022June 14, 2022

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.

May 6, 2022June 14, 2022

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

May 5, 2022June 14, 2022

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

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 4: “The Kitchen Boy” by Alaa Al Aswany; Humphrey Davies, trans.

May 4, 2022June 14, 2022

This story from the noted Egyptian author interrogates toxic power dynamics within institutions.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 3: “The People Across the Canyon” by Margaret Millar

May 3, 2022June 14, 2022

Millar’s story, ostensibly a psychological drama, is in fact a trenchant satire on the pernicious attractions of a particular kind of American dream.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 2: “Little Green Men” by Elaine McCluskey

May 2, 2022June 14, 2022

Set in a tiny fishing village on Canada’s east coast, the story limns the distance between fact and supposition.

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31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 1: “The Dead Are More Visible” by Steven Heighton

May 1, 2022June 14, 2022

One of the author’s best, this story interrogates the notion of societal visibility through the prism of a middle-aged-woman working as a labourer flooding ice rinks in the middle of the night.

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31 Days of Stories 2022: Introduction

April 30, 2022June 14, 2022

If the novel is a regal lion king, the short story is a cackling hyena.

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