Short Story Month: Full List

Here’s the final list of stories I read in May to commemorate Short Story Month. You can find brief commentaries on these stories on my Facebook Author Page here, where I kept up daily posts.

All five stories nominated for this year’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story: “Steve’s Story” by Cathy Ace, “A Death at the Parsonage” by Susan Daly (which won!), and “Where There’s a Will” by Elizabeth Hosang, all from the anthology The Whole She-Bang 3; and “The Ascent” by Scott Mackay and “The Granite Kitchen” by David Morrell, both from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
“Whose Wine Is It Anyway?” by Barb Goffman from the new anthology 50 Shades of Cabernet. 
“Williamsburg Bridge” by John Edgar Wideman from Harper’s, republished in last year’s Best American Short Stories.
“Obsession,” “The Fever Dream,” “Jimmy and I,” and “Interrupted Story” by Clarice Lispector from the massive collection Complete Stories.
“The Jar” by my wife, Tara Laskowski, from JMWW and recently selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, honoring the best flash fiction stories of the previous year.
“Vanity Case” by John Floyd from the just-released Spring issue of Mysterical-E.
“Acknowledgements” by Martin Edwards, a stand-alone, limited edition publication for this year’s Malice Domestic by Crippen & Landru.
“Put Yourself in My Shoes” by Raymond Carver from his debut collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“Dreaming of Rain and Peter Lovesey” by Ann Cleeves from the anthology Motives for Murder: Stories by the Detection Club for Peter Lovesey, published by Crippen & Landru.
“No More Waiting” by Helen Nelson from the anthology The Whole She-Bang 3.
“Pulpo” by Leigh Camacho Rourks at SmokeLong.
“Hourglass” by Clare Beams from her collection We Show What We Have Learned.
“Night Class” by David Dean from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
“A Garden for Adonis” by Debra Goldstein from Texas Gardener’s Seeds.
“The Summer People” by Kelly Link from her collection Get in Trouble.
“The Seven” by Elaine Viets from the anthology Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Historical.
“Queen of the Dogs” by Holly West from the anthology 44 Caliber Funk: Tales of Crime, Soul, and Payback.
“Crime on Mars” by Arthur C. Clarke and “Goodbye, Pops” by Joe Gores, both from the volume The Sixties from the multi-volume anthology Masterpieces of Mystery, edited by Ellery Queen.
“The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl from The New Yorker—in 1954.
“Dead Yellow Women” by Dashiell Hammett from The Big Knockover—celebrating Hammett’s birthday!
“The Sweet Unsweet” by Jay Merrill from Matchbook.
“How to be Another Person in Five Days” by Rebecca Bernard and “After the Third Notice, the City Shuts Off Our Power” by Wynne Hungerford, both from SmokeLong Quarterly.
“Lady Tremaine’s Rebuttal” by Karen Pullen from Every Day Fiction.
“Breadcrumbs” by Victoria Weisfeld from Betty Fedora, winner of this year’s Derringer Award for Best Long Story.