I'm going to try to read a new short story every day.

And I will log them all on this page.

I will try not to read the same author twice, but I'm making no promises. I love some authors (like Alice Munro) and cannot be expected to forsake them because of some project — especially when i make the rules. More rules: Some stories will be really short, because I just want to get one read. Some stories will be ones I have read before, possibly while in school.

This will be my second attempt at such an endeavor. My first attempt lasted a couple months. Then some big work projects and a change of apartments finally got the best of me. (My favorite, as I recall, was the one by Wells Tower.) Here is the catalogue of those days:

8/16/04
Pam Houston
The Best Girlfriend You Never Had

8/17/04
Aimee Bender
Call My Name

8/17/04
George Saunders
Sea Oak

8/18/04
Ben Greenman
Ill in ‘99

8/19/04
Wells Tower
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

8/20/04
Dave Eggers
Up The Mountain Coming Down Slowly

8/21/04
Kate Braverman
Histories of the Undead

8/21/04
Nick Hornby
Otherwise Pandemonium

8/22/04
Heidi Julavits
Marry the One Who Gets There First

8/22/04
Jhumpa Lahiri
When Mr. Pirzada Came To Dine

8/23/04
John Cheever
The Swimmer

8/24/04
Robert Boswell
Living To Be A Hundred

8/25/04
Mark Richard
Strays

8/26/04
James Joyce
The Dead

8/27/04
Rachel Seiffert
Francis John Jones, 1924-

8/28/04
Joanna Scott
X Number of Possibilities

8/29/04
A.S. Byatt
The Thing In The Forest

8/30/04
Sherman Alexie
Ghost Dance

8/31/04
Lydia Davis
The Old Dictionary

9/1/04
Ernest Hemingway
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

9/2/04
Zadie Smith
The Girl With Bangs

9/3/04
A.M. Homes
Do Not Disturb

9/4/04
Edith Pearlman
The Story

9/5/04
Robyn Joy Leff
Burn Your Maps

9/6/04
Haruki Murakami
Dabchick

9/7/04
Jonathan Lethem
K Is For Fake

9/8/04
Robert Lennon
Idea

9/9/04
Amy Bloom
Silver Water

9/10/04
Joyce Carol Oates
Is Laughter Contagious?

9/11/04
William Gay
The Paperhanger

9/12/04
Shelia Heti
The Princess and the Plumber

9/13/04
Jim Shepard
Mars Attacks

9/14/04
Lorrie Moore
Community Life

9/15/04
Julian Barnes
The Things You Know

9/16/04
J.D. Sallinger
For Esmé — With Love And Squalor

9/17/04
Gabe Hudson
The Size Of My Heart

9/18/04
Annick Smith
It’s come to this

9/19/04
Tobias Wolff
Firelight

9/20/04
Edgar Allen Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart

9/21/04
Guy de Maupassant
The Jewels

9/22/04
Anton Chekhov
Gooseberries

9/23/04
Henry James
The Tree of Knowledge

9/24/04
Denis Johnson
Emergency

9/25/04
David Foster Wallace
Forever Overhead

9/26/04
Alice Adams
The Last Lovely City

9/27/04
D.H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner

9/28/04
Sherwood Williams
Sophistication

9/29/04
Stephen Vincent Benét
The Devil and Daniel Webster

9/30/04
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ambitious Guest

10/1/04
O. Henry
The Furnished Room

10/2/04
Joseph Conrad
Youth

10/3/04
Frank O’Connor
Judas

10/4/04
Shirley Jackson
The Lottery

10/5/04
Bruce Holland Rogers
The Dead Boy At Your Window

10/6/04
Mark Twain
Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale

10/7/04
Varlam Shalamov
In The Night

10/8/04
Heinrich Von Kleist
The Beggarwoman of Locarno

10/9/04
Yukio Mishima
Swaddling Clothes

10/10/04
Gabriel García Marquez
Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers

10/11/04
Giovanni Verga
The Wolf

10/12/04
Heinrich Böll
The Laugher

10/13/04
I.L. Peretz
If Not Higher

10/14/04
Mikhail Zoschenko
The Bathhouse

10/15/04
Dan Pope
Flipping

10/16/04
Raymond Carver
Why Don’t You Dance?

10/17/04
A.E. Van Vogt
Ship of Darkness

10/18/04
Lydia Peele
Elemental

10/19/04
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Live Large

10/20/04
Steve Delahoyde
Spacious and Empty

10/21/04
Joy Williams
Honored Guest

10/22/04
Luigi Pirandello
The Soft Touch of Grass

10/23/04
J. Glenn Peterson
Julia

10/24/04
Alice Munro
Runaway

10/25/04
Paul Auster
The Brooklyn Follies

10/26/04
Steve Featherstone
The Garden of Eden

10/27/04
nothing.


And that was that, then.