A Year of Reading: Best Short Stories of 2015

2015 Best of the Shorts (Not Talking About Boxers)
by Jodi Paloni

’Tis the season of lists. That time of year when morning shows and radio programs, magazines, newspapers, on-line journals and blogs bring us the “top tens” and “best ofs” from the most tasty whitefish recipes to sought-after child-friendly cities. We list the over-rated and the under-rated; leather boots, micro-brews, and on-demand TV series. By nature, lists are a structure to help us to pare down an otherwise unwieldy glut....