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100 Shots of Short

Welcome to the 'hub page' for the 100 Shots of Short Reading Challenge. The challenge is a simple one - no time limit, no specific titles, just the goal of reading 100 self-picked short stories as and when possible.

Below you will find all of the details relating to my own journey through this challenge, and to the lower right you will find details on how you can take up this challenge yourself. To the lower-right you will also find links to the other readers who have decided to take up the 100 Shots challenge.

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    • ‘Shot of Short’ #11: The Accident
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  • My 100 Shots

    Below are the 100 short stories that I’ve chosen to read for this challenge. The first 51 in the selection are comprised of the entire short-story anthology - Great Short Stories of the English Speaking World (Vol.1), with the remaining choices coming from various other sources. I have purposely left a number of slots open, because experience has taught me that I usually discover additional choices as a challenge progresses, and I want to be able to accommodate these.

    Once each title is read, it becomes linked in the table to a mini-review page where I give a brief summary of each story, together with some short afterthoughts. As always, comments, questions and recommendations are warmly welcome

    No. Title Author Read on Rating
    S001 THE YOUNG MAN FROM KALGOORLIE H. E. Bates 27-09-08 3/5
    S002 THE MAGIC SHOP H. G. Wells 28-09-08 3/5
    S003 THE ROCKPILE James Baldwin 29-09-08 2/5
    S004 THE BLACK MAMBA Ernest Glanville 30-09-08 1/5
    S005 THE PIONEER HEP-CAT John O’Hara 03-10-08 2.5/5
    S006 THE TELL-TALE HEART Edgar Allan Poe 05-10-08 5/5
    S007 WINTER NIGHT Kay Boyle 06-10-08 3.5/5
    S008 JELLICOE R. S. Porteous 07-10-08 4/5
    S009 THE LADY OR THE TIGER Frank Stockton 09-10-08 3.5/5
    S010 THE KEY Eudora Welty 10-10-08 2/5
    S011 THE ACCIDENT Mavis Gallant 12-10-08 3.5/5
    S012 O FAT WHITE WOMAN William Trevor 16-10-08 3.5/5
    S013 THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER Ernest Hemingway 17-10-08 4.5/5
    S014 A MOTHER James Joyce 08-11-08 2.5/5
    S015 THE HAUNTED BOY Carson McCullers    
    S016 THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Richard Connell    
    S017 A DAY IN THE COUNTRY Dan Jackson    
    S018 THE LUMBER-ROOM “Saki” (H. H. Munro)    
    S019 WINTER DREAMS F. Scott Fitzgerald    
    S020 HOOK Walter Van Tilburg Clark    
    S021 THE DESERT FLOWER Olaf Ruben    
    S022 THE REUNION Margaret Drabble    
    S023 THE DEAD James Joyce    
    S024 SECOND BEST D. H. Lawrence    
    S025 IF GRANT HAD BEEN DRINKING AT APPOMATTOX James Thurber    
    S026 NIGHT CLUB Katharine Brush    
    S027 THE SILK Joy Cowley    
    S028 ACTION Len Deighton    
    S029 INNOCENT PLEASURES Olivia Manning    
    S030 BARN BURNING William Faulkner    
    S031 THE GENTLE ART Nadine Gordimer    
    S032 CORONER’ INQUEST Marc Connelly    
    S033 HOTEL DU COMMERCE Elizabeth Taylor    
    S034 THE MAGIC BARREL Bernard Malamud    
    S035 LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER Roald Dahl    
    S036 THE LAST GAS STATION Shirley Ann Grau    
    S037 THE SONG OF THE NARRANGUY Brian James    
    S038 THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN H. P. Lovecraft    
    S039 HIS FIRST FLIGHT Liam O’Flaherty    
    S040 THROUGH THE TUNNEL Doris Lessing    
    S041 CHRISTMAS IS A SAD SEASON FOR THE POOR John Cheever    
    S042 THE FURNISHED ROOM O. Henry    
    S043 THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD Rudyard Kipling    
    S044 THE DAEMON LOVER Shirley Jackson    
    S045 THE LOVE POTION Herman Charles Bosman    
    S046 BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER Herman Melville    
    S047 LOUISE W. Somerset Maugham    
    S048 TO BUILD A FIRE Jack London    
    S049 MATHIESON’S WIFE Vance Palmer    
    S050 THE COFFIN Uys Krige    
    S051 I CAN’T BREATHE Ring Lardner    
    S052 THE JUDGE'S HOUSE Bram Stoker    
    S053 THE LADY WITH THE DOG Anton Chekov    
    S054 WHITE NIGHTS Fyodor Dostoyevsky    
    S055 A HUNGER ARTIST Frank Kafka    
    S056 A HAUNTED HOUSE Virginia Woolf    
    S057 THE WALL Jean-Paul Sartre    
    S058 CATHEDRAL Raymond Carver    
    S059 HARRISON BERGERON Kurt Vonnegut    
    S060 THE LAUGHING MAN J. D. Salinger    
    S061 AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE Ambrose Bierce    
    S062 IN ALCALA P G Wodehouse    
    S063 VANILLA BRIGHT LIKE EMINEM Michel Faber    
    S064 WEDDINGS AND BEHEADINGS Hanif Kureishi    
    S065 SLEEP Haruki Marukami 11-11-08 5/5
    S066 BULLET IN THE BRAIN Tobias Wolff    
    S067 SONNY'S BLUES James Baldwin    
    S068 The CHRYSANTHEMUMS John Steinbeck    
    S069 ROTHSCHILD'S FIDDLE Anton Chekov    
    S070 THE WILLOWS Algernon Blackwood    
    S071 A CHILD ON FIRE Jan Balabán    
    S072 JUST LIKE SLICING AN OLD TREE STUMP IN TWO Stanislav Beran    
    S073 A TRIP TO THE TRAIN STATION Jáchym Topol    
    S074 UNUSUAL INCIDENT Lajos Parti Nagy    
    S075 SCARY SANTA Szilárd Podmaniczky    
    S076 BALLAD TO MY TYPING TEACHER Margit Halász    
    S077 MOVING HOUSE Pawel Huelle    
    S078 PROFESSOR ANDREWS GOES TO WARSAW Olga Tokarczuk    
    S079 MORE THAN JUST A HOUSE Daniel Odija    
    S080 THE GAME Karol D. Horváth    
    S081 AN INTRICATE STORY (abridged) Márius Kopcsay    
    S082 MOONMAIDEN Uršul’a Kovalyk    
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    Taking on the '100 Shots' challenge yourself

    If you wish to take this challenge yourself then feel free to take the challenge logo for your own blog/website (I've provided 3 different sizes - 300px, 150px, 75px). Story choice is completely your own of course, but you're welcome to choose any of the titles from my own '100 Shot' list, although I can't help source any titles that are not available online. If you do take up this challenge then please let me know and I'll be happy to link you in the roll below

    Other 'Short Shooters'

    Listed below are all of the other readers who have taken up this '100 Shots of Short' challenge. If you've taken up this challenge but haven't yet been listed, then please let me know

    Katrina Reads

    Lizzy's Literary Challenges

    Ex Libris (Sharon)

    Books and Movies (Carrie)

    Book Lover M

    Giving Reading a Chance (Veens)

    Adventures in Reading

    Susan Loves to Read

    Momma Writes About Books (Marina)

    Gimme More Books! (Laza)

    1300V (Vasilly)

    Bart's Bookshelf

    Cafe Shree (Sherri)

    1 More Chapter (3M)

    Oklahoma Booklady (Kathy)

    Casual Dread (Jessi)

    Writing on the Wall (Maryanne)

    Jottings from Jan

    Yogi's Den

    Lost, not found (Lena)

    Jenna's Romantic Notions

    Epiphany (Orchidus)

    Inside the Mind of a College Freshman (Allison)

    Stage and Canvas (Misha)

    Short Story Resources

    Following is an ever expanding list of short story resources that can be found online. Please let me know if you have any resources to add to this list.

    Short Story Archive

    The Literature Network

    Literature.org

    Classic Short Stories

    World English Classic Stories

    Bibliomania Classic Short Stories

    Classic Reader - Short Stories

    The Short Story Website
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