Shot of Short #57: Killer Heart by Barb Johnson

If you want to set off your short story reading year with a bang, then this is the story for you.

Shot of Short #55: 1647 Ocean Front Walk by Dan Fante

If you only read one short story this November…

Shot of Short #54: On the Weekends Sometimes by Ben Greenman

Explores one of the biggest taboos

Shot of Short #53: Beneath All That Bone by Jess Walter

Could Walter be the Tarantino of the literary world?

Reading Journal: Wednesday 16th September 2009

A quick rundown on yesterday’s 100 Shots of Short focused reading. Getting back into Richard Holloway. Feasting on Maupassant again.

Shot of Short #52: If You Eat, You Never Die by Tony Romano

Not a story I liked that much, but full marks to Romano for getting me going around all day speaking with an Italian accent

‘Shot of Short’ #51: The Kitchen Boy by Alaa Al Aswany

It’s not often I get to read stories of Egyptian origin. This is one and it’s good.

‘Shot of Short’ #50: Good Girl by Holly Goddard Jones

Cal Morgan says the characters in this story find themselves in moments which are ‘ragged, tense, and real’. I couldn’t agree with him more. Hugely powerful stuff!

‘Shot of Short’ #41: Immortal by Alex Burrett

Title: Immortal by Alex Burrett
Date Read: 28 June 2009
Available Online?: YES (as one of the stories posted by Harper Perennial on their website Fifty-Two Stories, which promises a new (or classic) short story from their collection, posted every week throughout 2009). For this review I read the story in the UK edition of Burrett’s [...]

‘Shot of Short’ #40: Graduate Seminar by Dennis Cooper

Title: Graduate Seminar by Dennis Cooper
Date Read: 13 June 2009
Available Online?: YES (as one of the stories posted by Harper Perennial on their website Fifty-Two Stories, which promises a new (or classic) short story from their collection, posted every week throughout 2009)
Briefly: In a story presented completely in two-way dialogue, an insistent art student hounds [...]

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