Twenty Short Stories That Are Not Built from Scenes

(by request, and alphabetically by author)

“Hands” by Sherwood Anderson
“Everything” by Ingeborg Bachmann
“The Index” by J. G. Ballard
“A Manual for Sons” by Donald Barthelme
“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
“The Light-Years” by Italo Calvino
“The Last Days of a Famous Mime” by Peter Carey
“The Prophet from Jupiter” by Tony Earley
“Under London” by John Foxx
“From the Fifteenth District” by Mavis Gallant
“Ten-Second Mystery: How You Never Seem to Get Exactly What You Want, but Somehow Time Moves Monstrously Forward Anyway” by Sara Gran
“The Joy and Melancholy Baseball Trivia Quiz” by Ken Kalfus
“The Abandoned House” by Mario Levrero
“Disquisition on the Difficulty of Communicating with the Dead” by Giorgio Manganelli
“The Thistles in Sweden” by William Maxwell
“Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart” by GennaRose Nethercott
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
“Our Spring Catalog: Upcoming Hardcover Titles from Gurnsey & Gable Publishing” by Jack Pendarvis
“Suicidal Realism” by Brad Phillips
“The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon

— March 24, 2025