This is a recap of last month's short story month. For May, National Short Story Month, The Bushwick Review featured a short story (almost!) every day on this tumblr, all by living writers. The picture above is from an event at Mellow Pages Library, hosted by the nice folks from Pioneers Press. I read a couple of the short story posts from this tumblr and then after reading each selected post, I gave a book that had that short story in it away. It was fun!
Here were the stories for each day. The date links to the post and the story title/author links to the story itself, or where you can buy the writer's book that contains that story. I ♥ short stories and the work of the writers below.
MAY 31 — "Old Tampons" by Richard Chiem
MAY 30 — "These Are the Fables" by Amelia Gray
MAY 29 — "Divorcer" by Gary Lutz
MAY 28 — "Stone Animals" by Kelly Link
MAY 27 — "Suicide Notes" by Scott McClanahan
MAY 26 — “Birds And Other Things We Placed In Our Hearts” by Timmy Reed
MAY 25 — "Likeable" by Deb Olin Unferth
MAY 24 — "The Walk" by Lydia Davis
MAY 23 — "Amplifier Worship" by Matthew Bookin
MAY 22 — "Face" by Ravi Mangla
MAY 21 — "The Isle of Youth" by Laura van den Berg
MAY 20 — “Why the Things You Use Every Day Might Kill You #11: The Spoked Wheel That Turns Paper through a Dot Matrix Printer" by Dolan Morgan
MAY 19 — "Eastward" by Rebecca Nison
MAY 18 — no short story this day
MAY 17 — "Search" by LK Shaw
MAY 16 — "Vincent Peppers Explains A Conference Call" by Shane Jones
MAY 15 — no short story this day
MAY 14 — "The Smoker" by David Schickler
MAY 13 — "The Last American Woman" by Elizabeth Ellen
MAY 12 — "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" by Denis Johnson
MAY 11 — "Violet" by Frederick Barthelme
MAY 10 — "The Semplica-Girl Diaries" by George Saunders
MAY 9 — "Something That Needs Nothing" by Miranda July
MAY 8 — "The Other Kind of Magic" by Juliet Escoria
MAY 7 — "We Close Our Eyes" by Adam Wilson
MAY 6 — "Do Not Disturb" by A.M. Homes
MAY 5 — "Screenwriter" by Charles D'Ambrosio
MAY 4 — "Bees" by Sam Pink
MAY 3 — "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" by Amy Hempel
MAY 2 — "Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint Joseph" by Marie-Helene Bertino
MAY 1 — "To the Interstate" by Rebecca Curtis