| Story | Author | Picker | Session |
|---|---|---|---|
"Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky" All-Pick: Time | Yan Lianke | JC | Dec 2025 |
"Wing's Chips" All-Pick: Time | Mavis Gallant | Hannah | Dec 2025 |
"Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman" All-Pick: Time | Harlan Ellison | Ruben | Dec 2025 |
"The Egg" All-Pick: Time | Andy Weir | John | Dec 2025 |
"Unreasonable" Devastating final paragraph | Rivka Galchen | JC | Nov 2025 |
"Hunter's Moon" Granta 98 | Thomas Lynch | JC | Nov 2025 |
"The Lesson" Third Kelly Link for group | Kelly Link | John | Oct 2025 |
Kelly Link story #2 | Kelly Link | John | Oct 2025 |
"Point of View" All-Pick: Weather | Lucia Berlin | Ruben | Aug 2025 |
"The Fête" All-Pick: Weather. Paris Review. | Tom Crewe | JC | Aug 2025 |
"The Old Woman Who Was Skinned" Skinning incident #2 | Traditional | Hannah | Jul 2025 |
"The Lottery" 7th grade curriculum. 6 pages. | Shirley Jackson | John | May 2025 |
"Procession of the Black Sloth" "Absurdly bad" writing | Laird Barron | John | May 2025 |
"Cinnamon Shops" Schulz killed by Gestapo 1942 | Bruno Schulz | Ruben | Apr 2025 |
"Speaking of Bashies" | A. Kendra Greene | Ruben | Apr 2025 |
"The Yellow Wallpaper" Perception shifts | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Hannah | Mar 2025 |
"Axolotl" | Julio Cortázar | Hannah | Mar 2025 |
"Up in the Gallery" Bonus story | Franz Kafka | Hannah | Mar 2025 |
"The Particles of Order" Characters in richly literary worlds | Yiyun Li | JC | Feb 2025 |
"The Piano Tuner's Wife" | William Trevor | JC | Feb 2025 |
"The Little Flashes" | Greg Shutz | John | Jan 2025 |
"The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear" | Kelly Link | John | Jan 2025 |
"Revision" Bonus story | Daisy Hildyard | John | Jan 2025 |
"The Great Silence" All-Pick: Time. Marciano museum. | Ted Chiang | JC | Dec 2024 |
"Wait a Minute" All-Pick: Time | Lucia Berlin | Hannah | Dec 2024 |
"The Story of an Hour" All-Pick: Time. "Brutal and amazing." | Kate Chopin | Ruben | Dec 2024 |
"The Letter" All-Pick: Time | — | John | Dec 2024 |
"I Like All Colors" Freeman's Conclusions anthology | Semezdin Mehmedinovic | Ruben | Nov 2024 |
"Pillory" Freeman's Conclusions anthology | Omar El Akkad | Ruben | Nov 2024 |
"The Creek, the Wind, the Holly" Freeman's Conclusions anthology | Lacy Johnson | Ruben | Nov 2024 |
"Little Rabbit" Surreal/spooky | Maria Reva | Hannah | Oct 2024 |
"Slumberland" | Laura van den Berg | Hannah | Oct 2024 |
"Gimpel the Fool" Trans. Saul Bellow | Isaac Bashevis Singer | JC | Sep 2024 |
"Invented Jewish Tales" LA Review of Books | Sam Sax | JC | Sep 2024 |
"Job History" All-Pick: Summer Reads | Annie Proulx | JC | Aug 2024 |
"The Crossing" All-Pick: Summer Reads | Mark Slouka | John | Aug 2024 |
"A Quarreling Couple" All-Pick: Summer Reads | Jane Bowles | Hannah | Aug 2024 |
"Forever Overhead" All-Pick: Summer Reads | David Foster Wallace | Ruben | Aug 2024 |
"A Small Good Thing" | Raymond Carver | John | Jul 2024 |
"The Overcoat" | Nikolai Gogol | John | Jul 2024 |
"The Company of Others" | Sara Freeman | Ruben | Jun 2024 |
"Annunciation" | Lauren Groff | Ruben | Jun 2024 |
"The Devourings" Read this one first | Aimee Bender | Hannah | May 2024 |
"The Floating Bridge" | Alice Munro | Hannah | May 2024 |
"Kansas" Excerpt from Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | JC | Apr 2024 |
"A Conversation with My Father" | Grace Paley | JC | Apr 2024 |
"Whoever is There, Come on Through" Things unsaid | Colin Barrett | John | Mar 2024 |
"Bullet in the Brain" Things said are dangerous | Tobias Wolff | John | Mar 2024 |
"Raymond's Run" | Toni Cade Bambara | Ruben | Feb 2024 |
"Crown Heights North" | Rivka Galchen | Ruben | Feb 2024 |
"The Semplica Girl Diaries" Diaristic frame, dark and funny | George Saunders | Hannah | Jan 2024 |
"Christina the Astonishing" | Kirstin Valdez Quade | Hannah | Jan 2024 |
"Rip Van Winkle" All-Pick: Time | Washington Irving | Ruben | Dec 2023 |
"Cortes the Killer" All-Pick: Time | Samantha Hunt | Hannah | Dec 2023 |
"The Perfume Thief" All-Pick: Time. LA Review of Books. | Susan Finley | JC | Dec 2023 |
"If it keeps on raining" BBC 2010 shortlist | Jon McGregor | JC | Nov 2023 |
"Gogol" Became The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | JC | Nov 2023 |
"Heart" | Shuang Xuetao | JC | Nov 2023 |
"Bruto" Hannah's first session | Helen DeWitt | JC | Jun 2023 |
"The Fall of Edward Barnard" | Somerset Maugham | JC | Jun 2023 |
"Foster" Early group formation | Claire Keegan | — | Jan 2023 |
Things we love:
Things to avoid: Skinning of human beings (<1% target), stories too long to read twice