The 2015 Short Story Challenge

[Lauren]

Welcome to the Short Story Challenge!

This is a year long challenge, beginning on 1 January 2015 and ending on 31 December 2015. You can use any short story that you finish reading in 2015.

You get 1 point for every story read and I'll tally the points at the end of the year. Please keep a tally of the number of stories you've read so I can update the list.

Short story podcasts and audiobooks of short story collections are allowed. You may also use graphic novels, as the amount of text makes them too short to use for other challenges.

To qualify for this challenge, stories must be less than 150 pages (so technically short stories and novellas), which means you get to use all those books that aren't long enough to qualify for other challenges.

Short story podcasts and audiobooks of short story collections are allowed. You may also use graphic novels, as the amount of text makes them too short to use for other challenges. Unfortunately, essays, blog posts, news articles and other short non-fiction is not allowed.

Good luck, and happy reading!

Scores
Lauren - 65
Jennifer - 12
Marlese - 1

Lu -

[Lauren]

* - Favourites

Clarkesworld Magazine
*1. The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye by Matthew Kressel Nebula
5. A Gift in Time by Maggie Clark
6. Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds by E. Catherine Tobler
7. Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop
12. The Contemporary Foxwife by Yoon Ha Lee
16. Stone Hunger by N.K. Jemisin
18. Soul's Bargain by Juliette Wade
39. Lambing Season by Molly Gloss
41. The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness by William Browning Spencer
44. The Saint of the Sidewalks by Kat Howard
50. Gold Mountain by Chris Roberson
55. Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion by Caroline M. Yoachim
57. Bonfires in Anacostia by Joseph Tomaras
58. The Rose Witch by James Patrick Kelly


Lightspeed Magazine
8. Starfall by Saundra Mitchell
9. Under the Scab by Matthew Hughes
10. The Djinn Who Sought to Kill the Sun by Tahmeed Shafiq
11. We Are the Cloud by Sam J. Miller Nebula
17. How to Become a Mars Overlord by Catherynne M. Valente
42. The Silence of the Asonu by Ursula K. Le Guin
45. Velvet Fields by Anne McCaffrey
53. More than the Sum of His Parts by Joe Haldeman
54. A Meaningful Exchange by Kat Howard
59. The Herd by Steve Hockensmith
63. The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R.R. Martin


Tor


Nightmare Magazine
61. An Army of Angels by Caspian Grey


Beneath Ceaseless Skies


Apex Magazine
40. Pocosin by Ursula Vernon
48. Candy Girl by Chikodili Emelumadu
49. Anthracite Wedding by John Zaharick
60. Requiem, for Solo Cello by Damien Angelica Walters


Strange Horizons


Subterranean Magazine


Pornokitsch
3. A Study in Psychology by Harle Oren Cummins
4. The Life of her Mother by Amy Coombe
15. The Lost City of Osiris: A Tale of Western Adventure by Carol Borden
38. Chrysalis by Becky Chambers


Other
43. The Broken Forest by Megan Derr


Collections and Anthologies

Nightmare Magazine, October 2014: Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue
2. The Inside and the Outside by Katherine Crighton
13. It Feels Better Biting Down by Livia Llewellyn
14. Martyrdom by Joyce Carol Oates
19. Black and White Sky by Tanith Lee
20. ...Warmer by A.R. Morlan


The Doll Collection
21. Skin and Bone by Tim Lebbon
*22. Heroes and Villains by Stephen Gallagher
*23. The Doll-Master by Joyce Carol Oates
24. Gaze by Gemma Files
25. In Case of Zebras by Pat Cadigan
26. There is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold by Seanan McGuire
27. Goodness and Kindness by Carrie Vaughn
28. Daniel's Theory About Dolls by Stephen Graham Jones
29. After and Back Before by Miranda Siemienowicz
30. Doctor Faustus by Mary Robinette Kowal
31. Doll Court by Richard Bowes
32. Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line by Genevieve Valentine
33. Ambitious Boys Like You by Richard Kadrey
34. Miss Sibyl Cassandra by Lucy Sussex
*35. The Permanent Collection by Veronica Schanoes (favourite in collection)
36. Homemade Monsters by John Langan
37. Word Doll by Jeffrey Ford

The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers
66. When Time Turned by Ethel Watts Mumford
67. The Painter of Dead Women by Edna W. Underwood
73. The Automaton Ear by Florence McLandburgh
74. Ely's Automatic Housemain by Elizabeth W. Bellamy
75. The Ray of Displacement by Harriet Prescott Spofford
76. Those Fatal Filaments by Mabel Ernestine Abbott
77. The Third Drug by Edith Nesbit
78. A Divided Republic - An Allegory of the Future by Lillie Devereux Blake
79. Via the Hewitt Ray by M.F. Rupert
80. The Great Beast of Kafue by Clotilde Graves
81. Friend Island by Francis Stevens
82. The Artificial Man by Clare Winger Harris
83. Creatures of the Light by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
84. The Flying Teuton by Alice Brown

Currently Reading
Terra Incognita: New Speculative Fiction from Africa
46. Mouse Teeth by Cat Hellisen
47. Leatherman by Diane Awerbuck
51. Caverns Measureless to Man by Toby Bennett
52. I Am Sitting Here Looking at a Graveyward by Pwaangulongii Benrawangya

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014: A Tor.Com Original
56. As Good As New by Charlie Jane Anders
62. The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey
65. Mrs Sorensen and the Sasquatch by Kelly Barnhill

64. Heirloom Pieces by Lisa L. Hannett (A)
68. Cafe Macondo by Megan Arkenberg (Daily Science Fiction)
69. The Island by Desirina Boskovich (N)
70. Weather by Susan Palwick (C)
71. Godfather by Megan Arkenberg (Niteblade)
72. The Suicide's Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition by Megan Arkenberg (LS)
85.

[Lu]

My spot :)

[Jennifer]

1. Aaibhe-Shee Queen
2. Tea with Emma
3. The Curvy Vet and the Billionaire Cowboy
4. Bride of Paradise
5. Laptop Love
6. Extra Epilogue to All About Seduction
7. Open House
8. The Gladiator's Touch
9. His Voice, His Command
10. In Leopard's Love
11. Aquarian Awakenings
12. One Step Closer
13. Jade O'Reilly and the 12 Days of Christmas
14. Stalking
15. His Prairie Princess
16. Beyond Love and Hate
17. His Lady Peregrine
18. Home for the Howlidays: A Montana Wolves holiday novella

Addictive Reads: The Winter Gift - 7 Uplifting Stories by Best-Selling and Award-Winning Authors
19. Everything to lose
20. Wrong way Wayne
21. Mistletoe mischief
22. The gift
23. Snow dance
24. A gothic Christmas angel

25. Desert Wolf
26. Lion and the Doe
27. Called by the Bear - Part 1: BBW Werebear Shifter Romance
28. Seduction
29. My Ex-Wife's Wedding
30. Protected By the Wolf
31. A Fair to Remember
32. The Kissing Bough
33. The Wedding List
34. Jingle Ball
35. The Blood King
36. Living La Vida Muerta
37. House of Bones
38. Murder Under the Mistletoe
39. Flickering Light
40. Holden and Yves – The Early Years
41. Guardian Wolf
42. The Healer's Heart
43. Desert Moon
44. Wolf's Oath
45. The Dragon Healer
46. Master at Arms

Paws and Claws: 21 Book Hot Erotic Shifter Romance Bundle
47. Cat lover
48. Alpha hunted part 1
49. Capture by the bear
50. Claiming their royal mate

SEALs of Summer 2: A Military Romance Superbundle
51. Fall dark
52. A SEAL's duty
53. The strong silent type
56. Her next breath


Romancing the Alpha: An Action-Adventure Romance Boxed Set
54. Fall back
55. The pirate captain's daughter
57. Among galactic ruins
58. Jackson (The devil set)
59. Tainted pearl
60. The Duke of Ambra
61. Ultimate escape
62. Cover me

63. A Viking's Peace: Futuristic Science Fiction Romance
64. Damon Snow and the Nocturnal Lessons
65. Controversy
66. Pleasure Cruise
67. Naughty Godmother
68. Mortal Wish: A Scanguards Vampires Novella
69. A Christmas Kiss
70. Beginning: A PAVAD Prequel Novella
71. Time Thief
72. Waking the Dragon
73. Summer Break
74. Four Kisses
75. Avenged by You: His BFF (BWWM)
76. Taming the Dragon, Part 1

Fall for a SEAL: three book military romance collection
77. Fall hard
79. Fall away

80. Soldier Come Home
81. Haunted by the Past
82. The Sheriff's Mistletoe Law
83. King, King, Goose?
84. Honey's Party
85. Maddie's Marine
86. Uncharted

Shifters In My Sheets
87. Alphas divided, part 1
88. A slice of honeybear pie
89. The bear heiress
90. Purrfect chaos
91. Quest of the alpha
92. Alphas unleashed, part 1
93. Bear back mountain
94. Once an alpha
95. Surrendered to the pack
96. A bear in need

Shifters In My Sheets 2
97. The panther promise
98. American tigers : Siberian soul book 1
99. Silverback shift
100. Trapped in a gilded cage: Sold to the alpha book 1
101. Shifter's curse
102. Bearly hanging on
103. Rogue bear
104. The problem with Paddy
105. Billionaire alpha seeks curves
106. My soul to bear

107. Furever Mine
108. A Wing & A Prayer
109. Never Too Late
110. A Place in Her Heart
111. Christmas Wolf

[Marlese]

1. Determined Prince - Michelle M Pillow
2. Absolution - Loribelle Hunt