Short Story Reviews

A

Sherwood Anderson - Adventure

Isaac Asimov - Jokester
Isaac Asimov - The Last Question

B

James Baldwin - The Man Child

J.G. Ballard - Prima Belladonna
J.G. Ballard - Venus Smiles
J.G. Ballard - The Drowned Giant
J.G. Ballard - The Dead Astronaut
J.G. Ballard - My Dream of Flying to Wake Island
J.G. Ballard - The Overloaded Man

Donald Barthelme - The School (Reviewed in 2023)

Donald Barthelme - The School (Reviewed in 2020)

Donald Barthelme - Jaws

Donald Barthelme - Chablis

Donald Barthelme - Critique de la Vie Quotidienne

Donald Barthelme - On the Deck

Donald Barthelme - The Genius

Donald Barthelme - The Glass Mountain

Donald Barthelme - Me and Miss Mandible

Donald Barthelme - Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning

Donald Barthelme - A Shower of Gold

Donald Barthelme - Porcupines at the University

Donald Barthelme - Rebecca

Donald Barthelme - Pepperoni

Donald Barthelme - At the Tolstoy Museum

Donald Barthelme - The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace

Donald Barthelme - Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

Donald Barthelme - The Party

Donald Barthelme - Wrote a Letter...

Donald Barthelme - Game

Donald Barthelme - The King of Jazz

Donald Barthelme - The Rise of Capitalism

Elizabeth Bear - Tideline

Ambrose Bierce - The Boarded Window

Jorge Luis Borges  - The Circular Ruins 
Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph 

Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden of Forking Paths

Jorge Luis Borges - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Ray Bradbury - Last Night of the World

Ray Bradbury - The Small Assassin
Ray Bradbury - The Scent of Sarsaparilla

Ray Bradbury - Fire Balloons

Ray Bradbury - Gotcha!

Ray Bradbury - A Medicine for Melancholy

Ray Bradbury - All Summer in a Day

Ray Bradbury - The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit

Ray Bradbury - The Sound of Thunder

Ray Bradbury - The Night

Ray Bradbury - Perchance to Dream

Ray Bradbury - No Particular Night or Morning

Ray Bradbury - The Veldt

Ray Bradbury - The Great Wide World Over There

Dionne Brand - Blossom: Priestess of Oya, Goddess of Winds, Storms and Waterfall

C

Morley Callaghan - Let Me Promise You

Angela Carter - Werewolf

Austin Clarke - Canadian Experience

D

Roald Dahl - The Landlady

Samuel R. Delany - Aye, and Gomorrah

Junot Diaz - This is How You Lose Her (collection)

Philip K. Dick - Explorers We
Philip K. Dick - The Wub
Philip K. Dick - The Colony

Philip K. Dick - The Skull

Arthur Conan Doyle - A Scandal in Bohemia

Nicky Drayden - The Simplest Equation

E

Greg Egan - Appropriate Love

Greg Egan - Learning to Be Me

Harlan Ellison - "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Tick Tock Man

Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

F

William Faulkner - Mountain Victory

G

Neil Gaiman - Chivalry

Neil Gaiman - How to Talk to Girls at Parties

William Gibson - Johnny Mnemonic

H

Amy Hempel - In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried 

Robert Heinlein - All You Zombies

O. Henry - The Cactus

O. Henry - The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry - The Skylight Room
O. Henry - The Furnished Room

Nalo Hopkinson - Something to Hitch Meat To

I

J

Shirley Jackson - The Possibility of Evil

K

Stephen King - The Lawnmower Man

Jamaica Kinkaid - Girl

L

Ursula Le Guin - The Wife's Story

Elmore Leonard - No Man's Guns 

Clarice Lispector - Fifth Story

Jack London - All Gold Canyon

Jack London - To Build a Fire

Audrey Lorde - Uses of the Erotic

M

Katherine Mansfield - The Doll's House

Richard Matheson - Dying Room Only

Richard Matheson - Witch War

Richard Matheson - Dress of White Silk

Richard Matheson - Shipshape Home

Richard Matheson - Now Die in It

Richard Matheson - Third from the Sun

Richard Matheson - Born of Man and Woman

Richard Matheson - Counterfeit Bills

Richard Matheson - The Prisoner

Richard Matheson - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Richard Matheson - Haircut

Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace

Steven Millhauser - Flying Carpets

Lorrie Moore - Subject to Change

Alice Munro - Turkey Season

Haruki Murakami - A Perfect Day for Kangaroos

Haruki Murakami - The Year of Spaghetti

Haruki Murakami - Dabchick
Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack

Haruki Murakami - Super-Frog Saves Tokyo

Haruki Murakami - The Ice Man

N

Vladimir Nabokov - The Passenger

O

Joyce Carol Oates - Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?

Cynthia Ozick - The Shawl

P

Dorothy Parker - The Waltz

Dorothy Parker - Oh! He's Charming!

Q

R

Rebecca Roanhorse - White Hills

S

J.D. Salinger - For Esme with Love and Squalor

Isaac Bashevis Singer - Gimpel the Fool

Rachael Swirsky - If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love 

Theodore Sturgeon - Microscopic God

Theodore Sturgeon - Poor Yorick 

T

Kimmisha Thomas - Berry

Cadwell Turnbell - Jump

U

John Updike - A&P
John Updike - Marching Through Boston

John Updike - Snowing in Greenwich Village

John Updike - Twin Beds in Rome

John Updike - Wife Wooing

John Updike - When Everyone Was Pregnant

V

Guy Vanderhaeghe - Ray

Kurt Vonnegut - 2BR02B

Kurt Vonnegut - Long Walk to Forever

Kurt Vonnegut - The Hyannis Port Story

Kurt Vonnegut - EPICAC

Kurt Vonnegut - D.P.

Kurt Vonnegut - Deer in the Works

Kurt Vonnegut - Adam

Kurt Vonnegut - Where I Live

Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron  

W

Alice Walker - Her Sweet Jerome

Eudora Welty - A Worn Path

Edith Wharton - Souls Belated

Virginia Woolf - Kew Gardens

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Y

Z