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Part of Cheffo’s Big Plan(tm) for writing in 2017 is to read at least one short story each day. I plan to concentrate on short stories in part because I have a huge backlog of quality shorts in my TBR and because I need to read more critically and learn from a wide variety of work from great writers. Here is what I have read so far in 2017. |
| Date | Title | Author | Publication |
| 19-May-2017 | It Only Comes Out At Night | Dennis Etchison | The Weird |
| 18-May-2017 | The Man In the Black Suit | Stephen King | The Weird |
| 17-May-2017 | Yellow and Red | Tanith Lee | The Weird |
| 16-May-2017 | Little Lambs | Stephen Graham Jones | The Weird |
| 15-May-2017 | My Mother | Jamaica Kincaid | The Weird |
| 14-May-2017 | The Dissection | Gerog Heym | The Weird |
| 13-May-2017 | In the Penal Colony | Franz Kafka | The Weird |
| 12-May-2017 | The Summer People | Shirley Jackson | The Weird |
| 11-May-2017 | The Ice Man | Haruki Murakami | The Weird |
| 10-May-2017 | The Belonging Kind | William Gibson & John Shirley | The Weird |
| 9-May-2017 | The Delicate | Jeffrey Ford | The Weird |
| 8-May-2017 | Praying to the God of Small Chances | L. Chan | Arsenika |
| 7-May-2017 | Letter From an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife | JY Yang | Arsenika |
| 6-May-2017 | It’s Against the Law to Feed the Ducks | Paul Tremblay | The New Black |
| 5-May-2017 | Dollhouse | Craig Wallwork | The New Black |
| 4-May-2017 | That Baby | Lindsey Hunter | The New Black |
| 3-May-2017 | Now | Roxane Gay | The New Black |
| 2-May-2017 | Act of Contrition | Craig Clevenger | The New Black |
| 1-May-2017 | Father, Son, Holy Rabbit | Stephen Graham Jones | The New Black |
| 30-Apr-2017 | The Homecoming | Dorothy B. Hughes | The Best American Noir Of the Century |
| 29-Apr-2017 | Nothing To Worry About | Day Keene | The Best American Noir Of the Century |
| 28-Apr-2017 | Pastorale | James McCain | The Best American Noir Of the Century |
| 27-Apr-2017 | The Gesture | Gil Brewer | The Best American Noir Of the Century |
| 26-Apr-2017 | First, Just Bite a Finger | Johann Thorsson | Garden of Fiends |
| 25-Apr-2017 | Windeye | Brian Evenson | Great Jones Street |
| 24-Apr-2017 | The Dripping | David Morrell | The Best American Noir Of the Century |
| 23-Apr-2017 | The Fiddle Is the Devil’s Instrument | Brett J. Talley | The Fiddle Is the Devil’s Instrument |
| 22-Apr-2017 | Slipping | Lauren Beukes | MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2014 |
| 21-Apr-2017 | Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts | Cory Doctorow | MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2014 |
| 20-Apr-2017 | Workshop Submission | Another Author | |
| 19-Apr-2017 | Workshop Submission | Another Author | |
| 18-Apr-2017 | Workshop Submission | Another Author | |
| 17-Apr-2017 | Thorn Tongue | Sarah Read | Gamut Magazine |
| 16-Apr-2017 | The Bereavement Photographer | Steve Rasnic Tem | Celestial Inventories |
| 15-Apr-2017 | Invisible | Steve Rasnic Tem | Celestial Inventories |
| 14-Apr-2017 | The Dead Collection | Mercedes M. Yardley | Chiral Mad III |
| 13-Apr-2017 | A Place of Beauty | Mercedes M. Yardley | Beautiful Sorrows |
| 12-Apr-2017 | A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens | Claude Lalumiere | Objects of Worship |
| 11-Apr-2017 | Biters | Mark Morris | Wrapped In Skin |
| 10-Apr-2017 | Show Your Bones | Mercedes M. Yardley | Beautiful Sorrows |
| 9-Apr-2017 | Water Thy Bones | Mercedes M. Yardley | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 8-Apr-2017 | Repent | Richard Thomas | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 7-Apr-2017 | Picking Splinters from a Sex Slave | Brian Kirk | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 6-Apr-2017 | The One You Live With | Josh Malerman | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 5-Apr-2017 | Hey, Little Sister | Maria Alexander | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 4-Apr-2017 | Cellar’s Dog | Amanda Gowin | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 3-Apr-2017 | Fallen Boys | Mark Morris | Wrapped In Skin |
| 2-Apr-2017 | On the Other Side of the Door, Everything Changes | Damien Angelica Walters | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 1-Apr-2017 | The Morning After Was Filled with Bone | Stephanie M. Wytovich | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories |
| 31-Mar-2017 | Drift | Amanda C. Davis | Shock Totem #3 |
| 30-Mar-2017 | Highballing Through Gehenna | John C. Foster | Shock Totem #8 |
| 29-Mar-2017 | Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorry, of Pieces of Us? | Damien Angelica Walters | Shock Totem #7 |
| 28-Mar-2017 | Skinny Girls’ Constitution and Bylaws | Tina May Hall | The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers |
| 27-Mar-2017 | This Is How It Starts | Shannon Cain | The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers |
| 26-Mar-2017 | Parts | Holly Goddard Jones | The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers |
| 25-Mar-2017 | Like Falling Down and Laughing | Jessica Hollander | The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers |
| 24-Mar-2017 | They Make of You a Monster | Damien Angelica Walters | The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers |
| 23-Mar-2017 | A Long Fall Into Nothing | John Mantooth | Shoebox Trainwreck |
| 22-Mar-2017 | Thirteen Scenes from Yout Twnety-Fourth Year | John Mantooth | Shoebox Trainwreck |
| 21-Mar-2017 | On the Mountain | John Mantooth | Shoebox Trainwreck |
| 20-Mar-2017 | This Is Where the Road Ends | John Mantooth | Shoebox Trainwreck |
| 19-Mar-2017 | The Water Tower | John Mantooth | Shoebox Trainwreck |
| 18-Mar-2017 | But For Scars | Tom Piccirilli | Supernatural Noir |
| 17-Mar-2017 | The Getaway | Paul G. Tremblay | Supernatural Noir | 16-Mar-2017 | Little Shit | Melanie Tem | Supernatural Noir |
| 15-Mar-2017 | Just Like an Angel | Shebat Legion and Jordanne Fuller | Sha’Daa Inked |
| 14-Mar-2017 | You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych | Kathleen Kayembe | Nightmare Magazine |
| 13-Mar-2017 | Lily at Twilight | Kate O’Connor | Gamut Magazine |
| 12-Mar-2017 | 3-Dot People | Gene O’Neill | Chiral Mad III |
| 11-Mar-2017 | Watch Me | Meghan Arcuri | Chiral Mad III |
| 10-Mar-2017 | Red Runner vs. the Surgeon | Jessica May Lin | Chiral Mad III |
| 9-Mar-2017 | Blood Dust | Max Booth III | Chiral Mad III |
| 8-Mar-2017 | The Offering On the Hill | Richard Thomas | Chiral Mad III |
| 7-Mar-2017 | A Flash of Red | Erinn L. Kemper | Chiral Mad III |
| 6-Mar-2017 | A Love Not Meant To Outlast the Butterflies | Mercedes M. Yardley | Gamut Magazine |
| 5-Mar-2017 | Votary | M.K. Hobson | For Mortal Things Unsung |
| 4-Mar-2017 | Used | Sandra M. Odell | For Mortal Things Unsung |
| 3-Mar-2017 | Kill Screen | Chris Lewis Carter | For Mortal Things Unsung |
| 2-Mar-2017 | The Fisher Queen | Alyssa Wong | For Mortal Things Unsung |
| 1-Mar-2017 | Watchers | Lavie Tidhar | For Mortal Things Unsung |
| 28-Feb-2017 | Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me | Eugie Foster | For Mortal Things Unsung |
| 27-Feb-2017 | Looker | David Nickle | For Mortal Things Unsung |
| 26-Feb-2017 | Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers | Alyssa Wong | Queers Destroy Horror! |
| 25-Feb-2017 | Basic Black | Terry Dowling | Southern Blood |
| 24-Feb-2017 | Nunavut Thunderfuck | Dale R. Sproule | The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir |
| 23-Feb-2017 | Clown Shoes | Cassandra Khaw | Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix |
| 22-Feb-2017 | The Hanging Tree | Maura McHugh | Black Static #38 |
| 21-Feb-2017 | Oldies | Jack Ketchum | Jamais Vu #2 |
| 20-Feb-2017 | Forest Born | Sylvia Heike | Gamut Magazine |
| 19-Feb-2017 | Love Is a Cavity I Can’t Stop Touching | Stephen Graham Jones | Gamut Magazine |
| 18-Feb-2017 | Returned | Kat Howard | Nightmare Magazine |
| 17-Feb-2017 | Man in Blue Overcoat | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Imaginarium 4 |
| 16-Feb-2017 | We Be Naked | Zsuzsi Gartner | Imaginarium 4 |
| 15-Feb-2017 | Wendigo Nights | Siobhan Carroll | Imaginarium 4 |
| 14-Feb-2017 | Bamboozled | Kelly Armstrong | Imaginarium 4 |
| 13-Feb-2017 | What You Couldn’t Leave Behind | Matthew Johnson | Imaginarium 4 |
| 11-Feb-2017 | The Nigger Knockers | Rion Amilcar Scott | New York Tyrant |
| 10-Feb-2017 | The Big Snip | Thomas Pluck | Great Jones Street |
| 9-Feb-2017 | Temporary Monsters | Ian Rogers | Supernoirtural Tales |
| 8-Feb-2017 | The Caretakers | David Nickle | Tor.com |
| 07-Feb-2017 | Today I Am A Black And Gray Skull With Snakes Coming Out Of Its Mouth | xTx | Today I Am A Book |
| 06-Feb-2017 | Figure 8 | E. Catherine Tobler | Gamut Magazine |
| 05-Feb-2017 | A Bad Day in Boat Repo | Nick Kolakowski | THUGLIT Last Writes |
| 04-Feb-2017 | The Killers | Ernest Hemingway | Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural |
| 03-Feb-2017 | Edge | Melia McClure | meliamcclure.com |
| 02-Feb-2017 | You Are Going To Lose Everything | Joanna C. Valente | Entropy Magazine |
| 01-Feb-2017 | Screaming Elk, MT | Laird Barron | Swift to Chase |
| 31-Jan-2017 | The Good Husband | Nathan Ballingrud | North American Lake Monsters |
| 30-Jan-2017 | The Lonely Sea in the Sky | Amal El-Mohtar | Great Jones Street |
| 29-Jan-2017 | Contest Entries | Various Authors | Flash Frenzy 124 |
| 28-Jan-2017 | Tourist | Rebecca Jones-Howe | Vile Men |
| 27-Jan-2017 | Following Marla | John R. Little | Group Hex Vol. 1 |
| 26-Jan-2017 | The Line Forms to the Right | Amanda Gowin | Burnt Tongues |
| 25-Jan-2017 | Thirteen Views of the Suicide Woods | Bracken MacLeod | Shock Totem #9 |
| 24-Jan-2017 | The Only Why Is You | Rebecca J. Allred | LampLight Magazine, Issue 5.2 |
| 23-Jan-2017 | The Bubblegum Man | Eric Reitan | Gamut Magazine |
| 22-Jan-2017 | Apt Pupae | John F.D. Taff | Not Your Average Monster! II |
| 21-Jan-2017 | Phrase Book | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Dark Issue 4 |
| 20-Jan-2017 | That Perilous Stuff | Scott Edelman | Chiral Mad 3 |
| 19-Jan-2017 | Sex Armageddon | Lindsey Hunter | Gamut Magazine |
| 18-Jan-2017 | Medium Tough | Craig Davidson | The Best American Short Stories 2014 |
| 17-Jan-2017 | Sunshine for Adrienne | Antonia Crane | The New Black |
| 16-Jan-2017 | A Tale of the Ragged Mountains | Edgar Allen Poe | Collected Works of E.A. Poe |
| 15-Jan-2017 | Dreams | Timothy Findley | New Anthology of Canadian Literature |
| 14-Jan-2017 | The Monster In The Field | Steve Rasnic Tem | Celestial Inventories |
| 13-Jan-2017 | Sanditon | Helen Marshall | Hair Side, Flesh Side |
| 12-Jan-2017 | The Mark of Cain | Roxane Gay | Difficult Women |
| 11-Jan-2017 | The Shade Caller | DaVaun Sanders | FIYAH Magazine |
| 10-Jan-2017 | Etch the Unthinkable | Kurt Fawver | Gamut Magazine |
| 09-Jan-2017 | The Only Gay Man in Bewdley | Tony Burgess | The Bewdley Mayhem |
| 08-Jan-2017 | Rudy Jenkins Buries His Fears | Richard Thomas | Slices of Flesh |
| 08-Jan-2017 | The Damage Done | Mark Matthews | The Damage Done |
| 07-Jan-2017 | When the Women Come Out to Dance | Elmore Leonard | Best American Noir of the Century |
| 06-Jan-2017 | The ABCs of Murder | Mercedes M. Yardley | Beautiful Sorrows |
| 06-Jan-2017 | If He Summons His Herd | Matthew M. Bartlett | Lost Signals |
| 06-Jan-2017 | A Face in the Crowd | Tim Waggoner | 44 Lies by 22 Liars |
| 05-Jan-2017 | The Spindly Man | Stephen Graham Jones | After the People Lights Have Gone Off |
| 05-Jan-2017 | Loneliness Is In Your Blood | Cadwell Turnbull | Nightmare Magazine |
| 04-Jan-2017 | The Breath | Jessie Volk | Blight Digest Fall 2014 |
| 04-Jan-2017 | Trick of the Light | Sèphera Girón | Group Hex Vol. 1 |
| 04-Jan-2017 | Three a.m. and the Stars Were Out | Ron Rash | Great Jones Street |
| 03-Jan-2017 | Sundowning | Andrew Robertson | Siren’s Call #30 |
| 02-Jan-2017 | Love Story, an Exorcism | Michelle E. Goldsmith | Gamut Magazine |
| 01-Jan-2017 | Longboat | Becky Regalado | Darkness Ad Infinitum Villipede Horror Anthology I |
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