August 2020 is for Short Stories

✨Announcing this month’s theme: #shortstoriesmonth✨

Popularised when published in American magazines at the beginning of the 19th century, Short Stories is considered essential to literature as a whole. The brilliance of short stories lies in the flair and manner in which the author pens them- when one is able to write a well-crafted and structured story in less than 30-40 pages, it showcases their talent and their genius since it is not an easy feat.

I have read a good amount of short stories in my life- be it for my degree or be it for pleasure. I use this medium of storytelling to get out a reading slump, to make my travels from one place to another less boring and to explore new authors and writers.

I am going to share reviews of those short stories that I have been recommended to read for a while by my high school teachers, my family members (who aren’t actually readers but do read short stories once in a while) and some I found on the internet.

These are the stories I am going to be reading this month:

A clean, well-lighted place by Ernest Hemingway

A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Confido by Kurt Vonnegut

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy

Also, I am excited to announce that the second interview for Conversations is going live on the 7th of August!!

📚So stay tuned for that. ☕️