advent calendar 2016:
​short story rereads

Every year in December I write a post a day for 24 days. This year I went back to read short stories that had stuck in my memory, from recent books I'd read right back to half-remembered stories from my childhood.

1st Dec: Hal Duncan The Behold of the Eye
2nd Dec: Tom Cardamone Sick Days
3rd Dec: 'Nathan Burgoine The Psychometry of Snow
4th Dec: Alyssa Wong Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
5th Dec: Steve Berman Author's Note
6th Dec: Paul Magrs The Foster Parents
7th Dec: Wendy N. Wagner Three Smiles Slices of Pumpkin Pie
8th Dec: Sarah Caulfield Nettlestings: A Fairy Tale
9th Dec: Cory Skerry Midnight at the Foot of the Caryatides
10th Dec: Sean Eads The Revenge of Oscar Wilde
11th Dec: Christopher Barzak The Language of Moths
12th Dec: Steve Vernon Wetside Story
13th Dec: Ryan Keawekane A Captive Audience
14th Dec: David Eagleman Death Switch
15th Dec: David Barnett Woman's Work
16th Dec: P. Djeli Clark A Dead Djinn in Cairo
17th Dec: Daniel Handler Adverbs
18th Dec: Chantelle Messier The Case of the Pipe Dream
19th Dec: Neil Smith Bang Crunch
20th Dec: David Levithan Starbucks Boy
21st Dec: Chuck Palahniuk Guts
22nd Dec: Paul Jennings Nails
23rd Dec: Kristine Kathryn Rusch Children of the Night
24th Dec: Robert Swindells A Lot of Mince Pies