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Details: The goal is to read 100 short stories. This is an ongoing challenge – there is no date limit set.

DIFFERENT SEASONS // STEPHEN KING

  • "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"
  • "Apt Pupil"
  • "The Body"
  • "The Breathing Method"

JUST AFTER SUNSET // STEPHEN KING

  • "Willa"
  • "The Gingerbread Girl"
  • "Harvey's Dream"
  • "Rest Stop"
  • "Stationary Bike"
  • "The Things They Left Behind"
  • "Graduation Afternoon"
  • "N."
  • "The Cat from Hell"
  • "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates"
  • "Mute"
  • "Ayana"
  • "A Very Tight Place"

KILTER: 55 FICTION // JOHN GOULD

  • "Two Things Together"
  • "Leather"
  • "Stump"
  • "Feeler"
  • "Female Drunken Immortal Fist"
  • "Avalanche"
  • "Shroud"
  • "Dear Ann"
  • "Dark Beast"
  • "Conversion"
  • "Method"
  • "Near-Death Experience"
  • "In Translation"
  • "Acrobat"
  • "Zeroes Someone Painted"
  • "Sweet Chariot"
  • "Takeout"
  • "Cotton"
  • "Ya Ya Ya"
  • "Conviction"
  • "High"
  • "Password"
  • "Magdalene"
  • "Crunch"
  • "Brood"
  • "Vessel"
  • "Time and Space"
  • "Civilized"
  • "New Message"
  • "Sunday Morning"
  • "The Invention of Language"
  • "Beyond Stillness"
  • "Neither Nor"
  • "Biafra"
  • "Rose-Breasted Grosbeak"
  • "Affirmation"
  • "Dust"
  • "Proof"
  • "Provisions"
  • "Suite"
  • "Orange"
  • "Magic"
  • "The Point of Dreaming"
  • "The Perfection of the Moment"
  • "Licorice"
  • "The End of the Day"
  • "Kansas"
  • "Do the Math"
  • "Prisoner"
  • "All Mysteries"
  • "What You're Ready For"
  • "Sea Peeks"
  • "Raising the Sparks"
  • "The End of the World"
  • "New Story"

MYSTERY STORIES // chosen by HELEN CRESSWELL

  • "The Green Arches" / Joan Aiken
  • "The Aztec Opal" / Rodrigues Ottolengui
  • "Wuthering Heights" (an extract) / Emily Bront
  • "The Girl who Kissed a Peach Tree" (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon
  • "The Thing in the Pond" / Paul Ernst
  • "Smart Ice Cream" / Paul Jennings
  • "The Pelican" / Ann Pilling
  • "The Adventures of Johnnie Waverly" / Agatha Christie
  • "The Tower" / Carl Jung
  • "The Scythe" / Ray Bradbury
  • "A Sea Above the Sky" / Thomas Wright
  • "A Vine on the House" / Ambrose Bierce
  • "The Master" / Diana Wynne Jones
  • "King Arthur" (an extract) / Sir Thomas Malory
  • "The Whisperer" / Vivien Alcock
  • "Texts" / Ursula Le Guin
  • "The Sky Sea" / Helen Cresswell
  • "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" (Sherlock Holmes) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The Bewitched Jacket" / Dino Buzzati

SKELETON CREW // STEPHEN KING

  • "The Mist"
  • "Here There Be Tygers"
  • "The Monkey"
  • "Cain Rose Up"
  • "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"
  • "The Jaunt"
  • "The Wedding Gig"
  • "Paranoid: A Chant"
  • "The Raft"
  • "Word Processor of the Gods"
  • "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands"
  • "Beachworld"
  • "The Reaper's Image"
  • "Nona"
  • "For Owen"
  • "Survivor Type"
  • "Uncle Otto's Truck"
  • "Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)"
  • "Big Wheels: A Tale of the Landry Game (Milkman #2)"
  • "Gramma"
  • "Ballad of the Flexible Bullet"
  • "The Reach"

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES // SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

  • "A Scandal in Bohemia"
  • "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League"
  • "A Case of Identity"
  • "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
  • "The Five Orange Pips"
  • "The Man with the Twisted Lip"
  • "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
  • "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
  • "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"
  • "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
  • "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"
  • "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"

THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES // SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

  • "Silver Blaze"
  • "The Cardboard Box"
  • "The Yellow Face"
  • "The Stockbroker's Clerk"
  • "The Gloria Scott"
  • "The Musgrave Ritual"
  • "The Reigate Squires"
  • "The Crooked Man"
  • "The Resident Patient"
  • "The Greek Interpreter"
  • "The Naval Treaty"

OTHERS

  • "This Year's Class Picture" / Dan Simmons
  • "Some Zombie Contingency Plans" / Kelly Link
  • "Death and Suffrage" / Dale Bailey
  • "Ghost Dance" / Sherman Alexie
  • "Blossom" / David J. Schow
  • "The Third Dead Body" / Nia Kiriki Hoffman
  • "The Dead" / Michael Swanwick
  • "The Dead Kid" / Darrell Schweitzer
  • "Malthusian's Zombie" / Jeffrey Ford
  • "Beautiful Stuff" / Susan Palwick
  • "Sex, Death and Starshine" / Clive Barker
  • "Stockholm Syndrome" / David Tallerman
  • "Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead" / Joe Hill
  • "Those Who Seek Forgiveness" / Laurell K. Hamilton
  • "Prairie" / Brian Evenson
  • "Home Delivery" / Stephen King
may 29 2010 ∞
jan 2 2011 +