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Done with entire challenge - 10-19-23

Thanks for joining and good luck!!

Finished first 'album':

Pornography (1982)

“One Hundred Years” – The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
“A Short Term Effect” - When Tony Met Adam
“The Hanging Garden” – Hot Pursuit
“Siamese Twins” – Stay Awake
“The Figurehead” – Rent Girl
“A Strange Day” – The Other AJ Hartford
“Cold” – Into the Fire
“Pornography” – Dark of Night

Next album done:

Disintegration (1989)

“Plainsong” – The Last Housewife
“Pictures of You” – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“Closedown” – Nothing But Trouble
“Lovesong” – Into the Fire
“Last Dance” – The Choice
“Lullaby” – Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“Fascination Street” – Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
“Prayers for Rain” – To the Land of Long Lost Friends
“The Same Deep Water as You” – The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
“Disintegration” - Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken
“Homesick” – Meet Me in the Margins
“Untitled” – How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

Next!

Wild Mood Swings (1996)

“Want” – Encore in Death
“Club America” – Snowblind
“This is a Lie” – The Choice
“The 13th” – To the Land of Long Lost Friends
“Strange Attraction” – The Lily Brand
“Mint Car” – Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
“Jupiter Crash” – Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“Round & Round & Round” – Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
“Gone!” – The Choice
“Numb”- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Return” – When Tony Met Adam
“Trap” – After That Night
“Treasure” – The Recovery Agent
“Bare” – Bittersweet
“It Used to Be Me” – The Big Bad Wolf Tells All

Finished:

Bloodflowers (2000)

“Out of This World” – Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“Watching Me Fall” - The Cassandra Complex
“Where the Birds Always Sing” – Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
“Maybe Someday” – Nothing But Trouble
“Coming Up” – One Christmas Morning
“The Last Day of Summer” - Encore in Death
“There Is No If…” – The Book Woman's Daughter
“The Loudest Sound” – Under One Roof
“39” – Under One Roof
“Bloodflowers” – Hot Pursuit
“Split Milk” – Headed for Trouble

Another one done:

4:13 Dream (2008)

“Underneath the Stars” – No Humans Involved
“The Only One” – Encore in Death
“The Reasons Why” – The Hot Flash Club Chills Out
“Freakshow” – Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
“Sirensong” – After That Night
“The Real Snow White” – Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“The Hungry Ghost” – One Christmas Morning
“Switch” – Bittersweet
“The Perfect Boy” – Horse
“This. Here and Now. With You” – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“Sleep When I’m Dead” – Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
“The Scream” – 21st Birthday
“It’s Over” – The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age

Finished this one:


The Head on the Door (1985)

“In Between Days” – The Choice & Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
“Kyoto Song” – Hot Pursuit
“The Blood” – Rent Girl
“Six Different Ways” – 81 Famous Poems: Audio Companion to Norton Anthology of Poetry
“Push” – Horse
“The Baby Screams” – Downfall
“Close to Me” – The Postmaster's Daughter
“A Night Like This” – Rules of the Game
“Screw” – Bittersweet
“Sinking” – One Christmas Morning

Finished:

Faith (1981)

“The Holy Hour” – Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Primary” – The Recovery Agent
“Other Voices” – Bittersweet
“All Cats are Grey” – Encore in Death
“The Funeral Party” – One Christmas Morning
“Doubt” – 81 Famous Poems: Audio Companion to Norton Anthology of Poetry
“The Drowning Man” – What Happened to the Bennetts
“Faith” – Nothing But Trouble

Next one:

The Cure (2004)

“Lost” – The Other AJ Hartford
“Labyrinth” – Rules of the Game (reissue of book originally published 1984)
“Before Three” – One Christmas Morning
“Truth, Goodness, and Beauty” – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“The End of the World” – The Serpent in Heaven
“Anniversary” – How to Raise an Elephant
“Us or Them” – Mr. Perfect (I re-interpreted this as also applying to books with a character that is multiple personality or with other mental health issues)
“Fake” – Beginnings and Ends
“alt.end” – The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
“(I Don’t Know What’s Going) On” – What Happened to the Bennetts
“Taking Off” – The Lily Brand
“Never” –Rent Girl
“The Promise” – The Blooding
“Going Nowhere” – The Excellent Lombards
“This Morning” – Meet Me in the Margins

Finished:

Three Imaginary Boys (1979)

“10:15 Saturday Night” – The Postmaster's Daughter
“Accuracy” – Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
“Grinding Halt” – The Other AJ Hartford
“Another Day” – The Big Bad Wolf Tells All
“Object” – The Recovery Agent
“Subway Song” – 21st Birthday
“Foxy Lady” – Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“Meat Hook” – Both Feet in the Grave
“So What” – London Bridges
“Fire in Cairo” – The Choice
“It’s Not You” – One Christmas Morning
“Three Imaginary Boys” – The Serpent in Heaven
“The Weedy Burton” – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Wish (1992) - done

“Open” – The Lily Brand
“High” – One Christmas Morning
“Apart” – Proof of Life
“From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” – The Serpent in Heaven
“Wendy Time” – Breaking the Rules
“Doing the Unstuck” – Upgrade
“Friday I’m in Love” – Beginnings and Ends
“Trust” – The Postmaster's Daughter
“A Letter to Elise” – The Last Housewife
“Cut” – Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
“To Wish Impossible Things” – 81 Famous Poems: Audio Companion to Norton Anthology of Poetry
“End” – The Excellent Lombards

Finished:

The Top (1984)

“Shake Dog Shake” – What Happened to the Bennetts
“Bird Mad Girl” – Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
“Wailing Wall” – (The) Cassandra Complex
“Give Me It” – Hat Trick
“Dressing Up” – 81 Famous Poems: Audio Companion to Norton Anthology of Poetry
“The Caterpillar” – To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh
“Piggy in the Mirror” – The Cassandra Complex
“The Empty World” – The Marrow Thieves
“Bananafishbones” – The Other AJ Hartford
“The Top” – Dark of Night

Another album done:

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)

“The Kiss” – Under One Roof
“Catch” – Family Money
“Torture” – Below Zero
“If Only Tonight We Could Sleep” – Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
“Why Can’t I Be You” – A Trick of the Light (maybe, I'm counting because the narrator of the story is the disease so it's a little quirky)
“How Beautiful You Are” – After We Fall
“The Snakepit” –The Lily Brand
“Hey You!” – After That Night
“Just Like Heaven” – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“All I Want” – Encore in Death
“Hot Hot Hot!!!” – The Last Thing He Told Me
“One More Time” – Game Day: Tennessee Football: The Greatest Games, Players, Coaches and Teams in the Glorious Tradition of Volunteer Football
“Like Cockatoos” – The Recovery Agent
“Icing Sugar” – Below Zero
“The Perfect Girl” – The Choice
“A Thousand Hours” – Into the Fire
“Shiver and Shake” – The Patient
“Fight” – The Lily Brand

Last one done:

Seventeen Seconds (1980)

“A Reflection” – What Happened to the Bennetts
“Play for Today” – When Tony Met Adam
“Secrets” – Dark of Night
“In Your House” – Sins of the Fathers
“Three” – Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
“The Final Sound” – One Christmas Morning
“A Forest” – The Book Woman's Daughter
“M” – Meet Me in the Margins
“At Night” – Revival
“Seventeen Seconds” – Free Fall / Home Fire Inferno: Burn, Baby, Burn (ok, so it's not really micro fiction but at about 50 pages it felt like this took 17 seconds to read)