Seasons, Stories

Leaving New Zealand, where it was autumn - as demonstrated in my sister's back garden:

 

… to Sheffield, where it’s early summer. This is our new place, on the ground floor of a former cutlery factory:

I realize, to my horror, that I haven’t updated the story list for ages. I’m still reading a short story every day, trying to range in time and place. Here’s 75-100.

75: ‘Bulldog’ by Arthur Miller (2001)
76: ‘Cell Phone’ by Ingo Schulze (1999)
77: ‘Hoodie in Xanadu’ by Ann Beattie (2010)
78: ‘The Custody of the Pumpkin’ by P. G. Wodehouse (1924)
79: ‘Madame de Treymes’ by Edith Wharton (1907)
80: ‘Goldfish’ by Raymond Chandler (1936)
81: ‘The Dragon’ by Muriel Spark (1985)
82: ‘Death of a Son’ by Njabulo S. Ndebele (1987)
83: ‘The Cost of Living’ by Bernard Malamud (1949)
84: ‘Sea Story’ by A.. S. Byatt (2013)
85: ‘The Landmarker’ by Louis Auchincloss (1964)
86: ‘Angels on the Inside’ by Dulce Maria Cardoso (2011)
87: ‘The Letter Scene’ by Susan Sontag (1986)
88: ‘Associations in Blue’ by Christa Wolf (2003)
89: ‘It’s All Up to You’ by Sylwia Chutnik (2011)
90: ‘Twenty-Two Stories’ by Paul Theroux (2008)
91: ‘Wars in Distant Lands’ by Najem Wali (2008)
92: ‘Suicide by Fitness Center’ by Joyce Carol Oates (2008)
93: ‘The Ecstasy of Alfred Russell Wallace’ by Daniel Mason (2008)
94: ‘Story in Harlem Slang’ by Zora Neale Hurston (1942)
95: ‘The Surrealist’s Daughter’ by Kristiina Ehin (2011)
96: ‘Something That Needs Nothing’ by Miranda July (2007)
97: ‘Nine Years is a Long Time’ by Norah Hoult (1938)
98: ‘A Long Night at Abu Simbel’ by Penelope Lively (1984)
99: ‘Welcome to the City’ by Irwin Shaw (1942)
100: ‘Vienna’ by Deborah Levy (2013)

And for those of you who've read RUINED, here is a picture of (the real) Marilyn the cat.

Comments

[Barry Ahearn]

It must be pleasant to have a gentle stream flowing by the window of your new home, but if televised British murder mysteries are any indication, soon a corpse will come floating by.