Police Officer reading.
I think this is the closest I have ever come to forgetting what day it is. Perhaps since my mother wasn't here to remind me. To those who commemorate it, peace and love.
The Summing Up, Friday, April 10, 2009: Short Stories/Collections
Patti Abbott"Graveyard Shift" James Reasoner; "The Long Silence After" Ed Gorman
Joe Boland, "A Visit From the Footbinder," Emily Prager
Paul Brazill, "The Nose," Nikolai Gogol
Michael Carlson, KILLING COUSINS, Fletcher Flora
Craig Clarke, "A First Blooding, Max Brand
David Cramner, "Knock," Fredric Brown; "The Lady of the Tiger," Frank Stockton; "After Twenty Years," O'Henry; "Graveyard Shift" James Reasoner
Bill Crider, "Murder for Money," James D. MacDonald
Clair Dickson, "Quitters," Stephen King; "Death by Scrabble" Charlie Fish; "Enlarge Your Penis," Al Tucher
Martin Edwards, "Inquest," Loel Yeo; ‘By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man’ by Hylton
Cleaver (both from Detective Stories from Strand Magazine)
Chris Ewan, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman. E. W. Hornung
Cullen Gallagher, "Three Gun Terry," Carroll John Daily
Ed Gorman, "Babylon Revisited," F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Gramlich, "Frost and Fire," Ray Bradbury
Randy Johnson, "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs," Harlan Ellison
George Kelley, "Honeysuckle Cottage," P.G. Wodehouse
Todd Mason, "Call Me a Cab." Donald Westlake; "Down Will Come Baby," Jody Scott
John McAuley, "Meeting Across the River," Bruce Springsteen (Steve Hamilton)
Terrie F. Moran, "The Blue Geranium," Agatha Christie
Juri Nummelin, "Then There Were None," Tom Blackburn; "The Scarface's Revenge," George Michener
Scott D. Parker, "Head Down" from the collection NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES, Stephen King
Eric Peterson, "Rhinestone Tombstone Blues," Sylvie Simmons
Jeff Pierce, THE NAME IS JORDAN, Harold Q. Masur
Ray, "Uncle Ernest" Alan Sillitoe
James Reasoner, "Main Currents of American Thought," Irwin Shaw
Sandra Seamans, "Warrior's Farewell, Edward D. Hoch
Kerrie Smith, "The Machine Stops," E.M. Forster
6 comments:
It would make an interesting anthology.
Patti:
I first came across your blog about six months ago. Since then "Forgotten Books" has become my second most important reason for looking forward to Fridays.
Many thanks to you and all your co-bloggers.
This was a really great idea, Patti. Let's do it again sometime.
SteveHL-how about doing a forgotten book some week soon?
Todd, do you mean today's shorts?
Craig-Definitely. I had so many I wanted to choose.
I do mean today's selections. Of course, it would be larger than even the adult HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: volumes, some of which ended with short novels, more along the lines of a NOT AT NIGHT triple-decker. Or such coffee-table books as the selections from THE MASSES and THE SMART SET I read in quick succession as a kid (because what kid isn't endlessly fascinated by the 1910s and '20s?--particularly from radical/clever perpectives?).
One advantage to e-books...they can be as long as one wants or can afford the rights to...the anthologies, in the latter case...
Ah, yes, every kid in the eighties assigned himself such reading material.
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