Favorite short stories read in 2024
Link list of the short stories I enjoyed most this year.
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February 3, 2025
Short story snippet – “Like & Subscribe for my Isekai Experience” (not the real title)
The former opening paragraphs of a short story I'm reworking.
August 10, 2023
Sup with gladness
A Christmas horror story about poison, disease, and blithely inviting trouble.
December 25, 2020
With love, all the same
1.6k modern fantasy short story. Originally written in 2018. Sidney does not so much walk out of her last final as let the crowd bear her along. The auditorium empties step by step, incrementally, and she feels like putting her…
July 11, 2020
Reasons to Choke
Some mechanical sound rumbled across the hills the day Gila National Forest burned. Lawry hiked towards the blaze with a dead cellphone, leaving his stalled out car behind.
June 23, 2020
“Lacquer” post-mortem
What “Lacquer” taught me as a writer is that a game of cards can’t end until you show your hand or fold.
May 28, 2020
Lacquer
This 4600 word short story, written in 2018, imagines a future that feels closer every day. I dragged it out of my folder of old projects because certain current events have made the themes feel topical again.
May 13, 2020