List ten short stories you’ve found memorable…
Pam Houston has done it. Salmon Rushdie has done it. Come on, everybody. Jump onboard. Which short fictions have had the most impact on you?
Here are some of mine:
Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story, Russell Banks
People Like That are the Only People Here, Lorrie Moore
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
A Worn Path, Eudora Welty
The Year of Getting to Know Us, David Leavitt
A Small, Good Thing, Raymond Carver
Meneseteung, by Alice Munro
Edison, NJ, by Junot Díaz
Hills Like White Elephants, Earnest Hemingway
Selway, Pam Houston
My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn, Sandra Cisneros
Nashville Gone to Ashes, Amy Hemple
We Walked on Water, Eliza Robertson
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Father, Lover, Deadman, Dreamer, Melanie Rae Thon
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, Joyce Carol Oates
White Angel, Michael Cunningham
Why I Live at the P.O., Eudora Welty
Gold Star, Siobhan Fallon
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