Feb 17: VS Pritchett – A Careless Widow, from A Careless Widow & Other Stories (1989)
Feb 16: Edmund White – The Creative Writing Murders, from Chaos (2007)
Feb 15: Saki – The Peace of Mowsle Barton, from The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Feb 14: James Joyce – Araby, from Dubliners (1914)
Feb 13: Madeleine Thien – Hiroshige Takes the Sky Train, privately published (2017)
Feb 12: Rob Doyle – Paris Story, from This is the Ritual (2016)
Feb 11: Alexander MacLeod – Good Kids, from Light Lifting (2012)
Feb 10: Teffi – Rasputin, from Subtly Worded (1932)
Feb 9: Viola Meynell – The Letter, from Young Mrs Cruse (1924)
Feb 8: Patricia Highsmith – Sweet Freedom!, from Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987)
Feb 7: Ray Bradbury – The Last Night of the World, from The Illustrated Man (1951)
Feb 6: Peter Carey – Happy Story, from Collected Stories (1995)
Feb 5: Stefan Zweig – Mendel the Bibliophile, from Collected Stories (1929)
Feb 4: Katherine Mansfield – An Ideal Family, from The Garden Party & Other Stories (1922)
Feb 3: Jackie Kay – Physics and Chemistry, from Why Don’t You Stop Talking (2002)
Feb 2: Toby Litt – Mr Kipling, from Adventures in Capitalism (1996)
Feb 1: Lydia Davis – Visit to Her Husband, from Break It Down (1986)
Jan 31: Hans Christian Andersen – The Red Shoes, from New Fairy Tales (1845)
Jan 30: Honoré de Balzac – An Episode of the Reign of Terror, from ‘Scenes from Political Life’ (1830)
Jan 29: Anne Griffin – Change Given, from The Irish Times (2018)
Jan 28: Téa Obreht – Untitled, from ‘The Book of Men’ (2013)
Jan 27: Robert Walser – A Little Ramble, from ‘The Walk’ (1917)
Jan 26: Ursula Dubosarsky – Little Wars, from ‘Stories Inspired by Objects from the Great War’ (2014)
Jan 25: Virginia Woolf – Solid Objects, from ‘A Haunted House & Other Stories’ (1941)
Jan 24: Selma Lagerlöf – The Eclipse, from ‘The Stories of Selma Lagerlöf’ (1922)
Jan 23: Peter Bichsel – A Table is a Table, from ‘Stories for Children’ (1971)
Jan 22: Günter Grass – 1971, from ‘My Century’ (1999)
Jan 21: Andreas Stichmann – Why Are We Going Back to Watan?, from ‘Jackie in Silver’ (2008)
Jan 20: Samuel Archibald – In the Midst of the Spiders, from ‘Arvida’ (2015)
Jan 19: Tove Jansson – The Birthday Party, from ‘The Listener’ (1971)
Jan 18: Daniel Defoe – A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal, published in pamphlet form (1706)
Jan 17: Joyce Carol Oates – Where Is Here?, from ‘Where Is Here’ (1992)
Jan 16: Helen Garner – All Those Bloody Young Catholics, from ‘Postcards from Surfers’ (1985)
Jan 15: James Kelman – Acid, from ‘Not Not While the Giro’ (1983)
Jan 14: Elizabeth Berridge – Woman About the House, from ‘Tell It to a Stranger’ (1947)
Jan 13: Margaret St Clair – Brenda, from ‘Weird Tales’ (1954)
Jan 12: Kristen Roupenian – Bad Boy, from ‘You Know You Want This’ (2019)
Jan 11: Algernon Blackwood – Ancient Lights, from ‘The Eye Witness’ (1912)
Jan 10: Benjamin Hale – Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Boy, from ‘The Fat Artist’ (2016)
Jan 9: Primo Levi – Lilith, from ‘Moments of Reprieve’ (1981)
Jan 8: Edna O’Brien – Number Ten, from ‘Mrs Reinhardt’ (1978)
Jan 7: Akhil Sharma – We Didn’t Like Him, from ‘A Life of Adventure and Delight’ (2017)
Jan 6: Yiyun Li – House Fire, from ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’ (2010)
Jan 5: Mollie Panter-Downes – Literary Scandal at the Sewing Party, from ‘Good Evening, Mrs Craven’ (1941)
Jan 4: EM Forster – Mr Andrews, from ‘Selected Stories’ (1911)
Jan 3: Arthur Conan Doyle – The Stockbroker’s Clerk, from ‘The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes’ (1893)
Jan 2: Agatha Christie – The Kidnapped Prime Minister, from ‘Poirot Investigates’ (1924)
Jan 1: Rudyard Kipling – How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, from ‘Just So Stories’ (1902)
