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Here's the thread for those of you tracking your 2021 short fiction reading.

Happy reading, everyone!

This list will be short again, but it's nice to have a place where I can rate each story of an anthology or collection individually.

Collection: Kinder, die im Dunkeln spielen: Unheimliche Geschichten (Daniel Kasper)
1. Die Gleishexe *****
2. Herrn Kuckucks letzter Zaubertrick ****
3. Der Klabautermann und Annie *****
4. Lecker böse Kinder *****
5. Sintflut ***
6. Henri Mondgesicht *****
7. Nina ist ein Roboter *****

8. The Weather ***
9. A Bad Place ***

I've committed to reading a short story a week off the Tor.com website. There are over 400 free ones listed there now, so I should be good for a couple years if I read one a week. My Bookshelf is labeled Short Story 2021

Where does everyone else like to get their short story fix from?

Thanks for once again hosting this thread, Char.

 

Canavan’s spot for 2021.



          ==========Legend==========

Genre
= adventure, espionage, western, thriller
= art, art history
= horror, fantasy
= history, biography, autobiography, current events
= humor
= literary criticism, essay
= literature, general fiction
= mystery, detective, crime
= science fiction
= science, philosophy

Other
💝 = entries rated 4 stars or above
🆕 = entries recently added to the list
🕓 = review/rating for a completed book is pending

          ==========Links==========

Links to HA story tracking threads from previous years
2013          2014          2015
2016          2017          2018
2019          2020

Links to Canavan’s 2021 entries
Part 1

 

Canavan’s entries

Part 1

in: Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories , Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg (as by Martin Harry Greenberg), & Joseph D. Olander (Eds.) (1980)

1. “Put Your Head Upon My Knee”, Jack Ritchie (1980) ✭✭✭
2. “The Big Fix”, Robert F. Decker (1980) ✭✭½
3. “Speed of the Cheetah, Roar of the Lion”, Harry Harrison (1975) ✭✭½
4. “Just Call Me Irish”, Richard Wilson (1958) ✭✭
5. “Renaissance Man”, T. E. D. Klein (1974) ✭✭½

in: With a Little Help , Cory Doctorow (2009)

6. “The Right Book” ✭½

in: Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers , Tim Powers (2017)

7. “Pat Moore” (2004) ✭✭✭½

in: Ghosts & Scholars, Issue 39, António Monteiro (Ed.) (2020) ✭✭

8. “The Lady Chapel”, Robbie Porter ✭✭✭
9. “Butterflies”, Carole Tyrrell ✭½
10. “Water’d with Blood”, Victoria Day ✭✭
11. “In the Tracks of M. R. James: 2. Return to Bergundy”, Jim Bryant ✭✭
12. “‘It May Have Been the Trail’: Jamesian Certainties (and Uncertainties) in John Gordon’s The House on the Brink”, Benjamin Harris ✭½
13. “Ghost Stories of a Norfolk Parson”, Peter Bell ✭✭✭½

So far I have read:

If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky. I did not realize this was one of the works cited by the "Sad/RabidPuppies" for their creation. They were damn fools.

Badseedgirl said (in part): If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky. I did not realize this was one of the works cited by the "Sad/RabidPuppies" for their creation.

I am familiar with Rachel Swirsky, but have not read this particular story. I may have it in one of my anthologies that are laying around in untidy heaps. The Sad/Rabid Puppies movement was, in my opinion, pretty disturbing, especially at the height of its influence during the campaign of 2015.

I am familiar wit..."


You can read/listen to it here.
It's short but so well written.
And yes, they were a very upsetting group.

My spot: This will be my first year to keep track of short fiction.

1. The Black Cat 🌟 ⭐ 🌟 🌟 ⭐

I guess this is my spot for the 2021 Short Story list:

1. If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love Rachel Swirsky
2. The Princess GameMeg / Meg: Origins88] Soman Chainani
3. The Wickeds Gayle Forman
4. The Cleaners Ken Liu
5. Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order Damien Broderick
6. Let All the Children Boogie: A Tor.com Original Sam J. Miller
7. Unseaming Collection by Mike Allen
8. This World is Full of Monsters Jeff Vandermeer
9., 10.,11., 12 Something Fishy, Always Something New, Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Shtetl Days Harry Turtledove
13. Meg / Meg: Origins Steve Alten
14. If It Bleeds Collection by Stephen King
15. Shards: A Tor.com Original Ian Rogers
16. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law Lavie Tidhar
17. Dear Melissa Kurt Huggins
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