On December 10th, 2012 I posted this. In a nutshell, I set myself a challenge to read 365 short stories during 2013. And I expected to fail. Then it occurred to me that if I set the challenge for all of 2013, the end would be at the busy Xmas/New Year time and might get lost or forgotten. So I decided to start my year on December 1st, 2012 and run till November 30th, 2013. I started to record all my short fiction reading from then. I ended up setting up a document in Dropbox that I can access and edit in Documents To Go on my iPhone or iPad, or just edit directly from my laptop. That way, it’s easy to update the list wherever I am and whatever format I’m reading in (ebook, online, printed book, podcast, etc.) This page is where I will list everything thus collected, updated as and when I remember.
Start: December 1st 2012
Collection: Midnight & Moonshine by Lisa L Hannett and Angela Slatter
Seeds
Burning Seaweed for Salt
The Morning is Wiser than the Evening
The Third Who Went With Us
To that Man, My Bitter Counsel
Kveldúlfr
The Red Wedding
Midnight
Of the Demon and the Drum
Warp and Weft
Bella Beaufort Goes to War
Prohibition Blues
Seven Sleepers
Drabblecast 258 – Brown Dust by Esther Friesner
Drabblecast 259 – The Last of the O-Forms by James Van Pelt
Drabblecast 260 – Trifecta XXIII
Feature: Constant Companion by David Steffen
Feature: Gorgon by Teresa Milbrodt
Feature Blue by Sandra Odell
Drabblecast 261 – The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
Connoisseurs of the Eccentric by Jetse de Vries (Escape Pod original)
The Crawl Space by Russell Bradbury-Carlin (Pseudopod original)
At Lorn Hall by Ramsey Campbell – Nightmare Magazine
Chop Shop by J B Park – Nightmare Magazine
The Hades Hotline by Alex Petri – Daily SF
Feeding The Machine by Hunter James Martin – Pseudopod original, ep 312
The Strange Machinery of Desire by Justin A Williams – Pseudopod 309, originally Stupefying Stories Vol 3
Oubliette – J Kelly Anderson – Escape Pod 374, originally Ray Gun Revival
Life in Space – by Leslie Jane Anderson – Daily SF
Collection: Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012, ed. Paula Guran:
“Hair” by Joan Aiken (The Monkey’s Wedding & Other Stories / F&SF July/August)
“Rakshasi” by Kelley Armstrong (The Monster’s Corner: Through Inhuman Eyes)
“Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin” by Adam Callaway (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #73, July 14, 2011)
“The Lake” by Tananarive Due (The Monster’s Corner: Through Inhuman Eyes)
“Tell Me I’ll See You Again” by Dennis Etchison (A Book of Horrors)
“King Death” Paul Finch (King Death)
“The Last Triangle” by Jeffrey Ford (Supernatural Noir)
“Near Zennor” by Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
“Crossroads” by Laura Anne Gilman (Fantasy, August 2011)
“After-Words” by Glen Hirshberg (The Janus Tree and Other Stories)
“Rocket Man” by Stephen Graham Jones (Stymie, Vol. 4. Issue 1, Spring & Summer 2011)
“The Maltese Unicorn” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Supernatural Noir)
“The Dune” by Stephen King (Granta 117)
“Catastrophic Disruption of the Head” by Margo Lanagan (The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower, Vol. 1)
“The Bleeding Shadow” by Joe R. Lansdale (Down These Strange Streets)
“Why Light?” by Tanith Lee (Teeth)
“Conservation of Shadows” by Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld, August 2011)
“A Tangle of Green Men”, Charles de Lint (Welcome to Bordertown)
“After the Apocalypse” by Maureen McHugh (After the Apocalypse)
“Why Do You Linger?” by Sarah Monette (Subterranean #8)
“Lord Dunsany’s Teapot” Naomi Novik (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities)
“Mysteries of the Old Quarter” by Paul Park (Ghosts by Gaslight)
“Vampire Lake”, by Norman Partridge (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2)
“A Journey of Only Two Paces” by Tim Powers (The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
“Four Legs in the Morning” by Norman Prentiss (Four Legs in the Morning)
“The Fox Maiden” by Priya Sharma (On Spec, Summer 2011)
“Time and Tide” by Alan Peter Ryan (F&SF, Sept/Oct 2011)
“Sun Falls” by Angela Slatter (Dead Red Heart)
“Still” by Tia V. Travis (Portents)
“Objects in Dreams May Be Closer Than They Appear” by Lisa Tuttle (House of Fear)
“The Bread We Eat in Dreams” by Catherynne M. Valente (Apex Magazine, Issue 30, November 2011)
“All You Can Do Is Breathe” by Kaaron Warren (Blood & Other Cravings)
The Miracle on Tau Prime by Alex Shvartsman – Daily SF
Unwanted by Holly Jennings – Daily SF
Harmonies of Time by Caroline M. Yoachim – Daily SF
Magazine: Midnight Echo #7:
Commode by Shaun Hamilton
Parlour Party by Michael Penkas
Driven by Anthony Ferguson
Just Some Good Old Boys Sittin’ Around the Fire Talking Shit by A J Brown
“See Jane Mesmerised!” by Tom McLaughlin
Ghosts Of You by Lee Battersby
The Hunting Room by Kia Groom
Dead Inertia by Eric Blair
What The Dark Does by Graham Masterton
A Slice Of Life – A Spot Of Liver by Paul Haines
Magazine: Midnight Echo #8:
A Visit With Friends – Joe R Lansdale
The Girl From The Borderlands by Felicity Dowker
Blissful Ignorance by Matt Wedge
Hello Kitty by Jason Nahrung
Jar Baby by Michelle Jager
The Boy With The Hole In His Heart by Caysey Sloan
They Don’t Know That We Know What They Know by Andrew McKiernan
Squirrely Shirley by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
Always A Price by Joanne Anderton
Blood Lilies by Shauna O’Meara
Tooth by Kathryn Hore
Pigroot Flat by Jason Fischer
Collection: Wild Chrome by Greg Mellor
Fragments
The Trouble With Memes
Terra Q
Eyes Of Fire In My Waking Dreams
Alien Intent
Day Break
Stranded Light
Autumn Leaves Falling
Defence Of The Realm
Ethos Anthropoi Daimon
Hollow Places
Heaven And Earth
Ravenous
Robo Sapiens
Social Contract
This makes 100 stories so far!
(Wild Chrome cont.)
House Of Cards
Static
Beyond Winter’s Shadow
Time Capture
Weapons Of Choice
Signals In The Deep
Fool’s Gold by Melissa Mead – Daily SF
Final Corrections, Pittsburgh Times-Dispatch by M. Bennardo – Daily SF
Walking Home by Catherine Krahe – Daily SF
Downsizing Pluto by Shane Halbach – Daily SF
The Remnant by Cassie Beasley – Daily SF
Pumpkinhead by Rajan Khanna – Pseudopod 305, originally Shadows Of The Emerald City anthology
No Further by Matthew Acheson – Pseudopod 311, originally Underground Voices magazine
The Conchie by J Grant – Pseudopod 311 (original)
Bitter Tea & Braided Hair by Henry Lu – Pseudopod 311, originally Fiction 365
What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night by Michael Marshall Smith – Pseudopod 314
Foul Weather by Daniel H Wilson – Nightmare magazine
On Murder Island by Matt Williamson – Nightmare magazine
Time Trash by Michael Greenhut – Cosmos online
Casting Call by Alexandra Grunberg – Daily SF
The Wyrd for Water is Water by Marie Croke – Daily SF
Quantum Entanglement by Rajan Khanna – Daily SF
What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Alien Parasite by Rebecca Adams Wright – Daily SF
The mMod by Ken Liu – Daily SF
Draconic Motivation by Donald S. Crankshaw – Daily SF
Three Kisses: Defenders of the Crystal Casket by Henry Szabranski – Daily SF
A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home by Jason Arnopp – Kindle edition
Three Kisses: A Royal Breakfast by Henry Szabranski – Daily SF
The Persistence of Memory by William Meikle – Pseudopd 316
Three Kisses: The Mirror of Reason by Henry Szabranski – Daily SF
Experience by Ephiny Gale – Daily SF
The Nowhere Man by Sarah Pinborough – Nightmare Magazine
As If All Questions Have Answers by David Barber – Daily SF
Hungry by Robert E. Stutts – Daily SF
Springtime For Deathtraps by Marjorie James – Escape Pod 368
The Watchmaker’s Gift by Rich Matrunick – Daily SF
A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro
Beheaded By Peasants by James L Sutter – Beneath Ceaseless Skies #114
The Mountain by Andrew Kozma – Daily SF
I Heard You Got a Cat, I Heard You Named Him Charles by M. Bennardo – Daily SF
Iron-Eyes and the Watered Down World by Saladin Ahmed – Podcastle 220
We Clever Jacks by Greg van Eekhout – Podcastle Miniature 71
Coin Op by by David Steffen – Daily SF
Crabapple by Lavie Tidhar – Daily SF
Gravity by ERZEBET YELLOWBOY — Clarkesworld 77
The Wanderers by BONNIE JO STUFFLEBEAM — Clarkesworld 77
Vacant Spaces by GREG KURZAWA — Clarkesworld 77
On the Arrival of the Paddle-Steamer on the Docks of V– by Peter M. Ball – Eclipse Online
The Small Print by Amy McLane – Daily SF
The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest by M. BENNARDO – Lightspeed
Grandmother by Cat Rambo – Escape Pod 355 (original)
Flowing Shapes by Rajan Khanna – Escape Pod 363, originally Basement Stories #1
Lion Dance by Vylar Kaftan – Escape Pod 367, originally Asimov’s, 2012
1st Quarter total: 153 stories read in three months Dec 1st 2012 to February 28th 2013
.
