Because I think stories should stand alone (although they’re interesting in a collection), and because I get compulsive about needing to finish a book so I can put it on my book list, I want to track stories I’ve read independently of the books so I can feel free to dip in and out of collections and literary magazines.
2009
July
- “Hurt People” – Cote Smith
- “Pigs” – Craig Hartglass
- “Retreat” – Wells Tower
- “Executors of Important Energies” – Wells Tower
- “Floating Bridge” – Alice Munro
- “Chunky in Heat” – A.M. Homes
- “The Still Point” – Lydia Peelle
August
- “Down Through the Valley” – Wells Tower
- “Interrupted Serenade” – James Hannaham
- “Zog-19: A Scientific Romance” – Pinckney Benedict
- “Revival Road” – Louise Erdrich
September
- “You’re Ugly, Too” – Lorrie Moore
October
- “Children are the Only Ones who Blush” – Joe Meno
- “Desiderata” – Jennifer Haigh
- “Rocky Point, Mexico” – Caedra Scott-Flaherty
- “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre” – Seth Fried
- “Good Girl” – Holly Goddard Jones
- “Mule Killers” – Lydia Peelle
- “Phantom Pain” – Lydia Peelle
- “Sweethearts of the Rodeo” – Lydia Peelle
- “Sweet Town” – Toni Cade Bambara
- “The Water Faucet Vision” – Gish Jen
- “Demonology” – Rick Moody
- “Escapes” – Joy Williams
- “This is Not a Love Story” – Lydia Peelle
- “The Swimmer” – John Cheever
- “Stag” – Robert McCarthy
- “Kidding Season” – Lydia Peelle
- “Shadow on a Weary Land” – Lydia Peelle
November
- “Life Expectancy” – Holly Goddard Jones
- “To the Good People of Mars” – Laura van den Berg
- “Up High in the Air” – Laura van den Berg
- “Goodbye, My Brother” – John Cheever
- “Field Work” – Laura van den Berg
- “Parakeets” – Laura van den Berg
- “The Golden Dragon Express” – Laura van den Berg
- “Transit” – Laura van den Berg
- “Cain, Caleb, Cameron” – Matt Bell
- “This Showroom Filled with Fabulous Prizes” – Matt Bell
- “Domina, Doreen, Dorma” – Matt Bell
