Okay, so far this week I’ve pretty much ignored my ROW80 goals because I was focused on finishing my application for grad school. If you ever decide to apply for grad school, I offer this word of advice…make the decision more than a week before the deadline. I know, I know – this comes as a shock, but trust me when I say that you will be doing yourself a favor if you allow more than a week to gather your info and write a &*(#^% damn passable awesome personal statement.
The deadline was midnight last night. I had everything in by 9:30 p.m. So now I can focus on other things.
But just to prove that I haven’t been a total slacker, here’s a list of the short stories I’ve read so far during this challenge:
- Chivalry, Neil Gaiman *
- Nicholas Was…, Neil Gaiman
- The Price, Neil Gaiman
- Troll Bridge, Neil Gaiman *
- Don’t Ask Jack, Neil Gaiman
- Her Husband Didn’t, Yasunari Kawabata
- Homage, Nadine Gordimer
- Tomorrow’s Bird, Ian Frazier *
- The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories, Neil Gaiman
- The White Road, Neil Gaiman
- Queen of Knives, Neil Gaiman
- Story, Lydia Davis
- The Fears of Mrs. Orlando, Lydia Davis *
- Liminal: The Little Man, Lydia Davis
- Virgin, April Ayers Lawson
- The Palmist, Andrew Lam *
- Blood, Zdravka Evtimova
- I’m Slavering, Sam Lipsyte
- Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Joyce Carol Oates
- Footnote, Rommulus Linney
- My Lawrence, Claudia Smith
- Feeling Good, Feeling Fine, George Garrett
- We Ate the Children Last, Yann Martel
- Girl, Jamaica Kincaid *
- 1951, Richard Bausch
- PS, Jill McCorkle *
- The Hollow, James Lasdun
- Someone Ought to Tell Her There’s Nowhere to Go, Danielle Evans
- Pompeii, Leslie Pietrzyk
- Ma, a Memoir, Lynn Freed
- Changes, Neil Gaiman
- The Wine Doctor, Frederick Adolf Paola *
- In Reference to Your Recent Communications, Tessa Brown *
- Following the Notes, Pia Z. Ehrhardt
- The Minimalist, Stacey Richter
- The Daughter of Owls, Neil Gaiman
* These were particularly enjoyable and I recommend adding these stories to your reading list.
The rest of the week will be dedicated to kids, work, catching up on writing, and not obsessing over whether or not I get accepted into the grad program.
See how my fellow ROW80 participants are doing here.
Keeping fingers crossed virtually for your grad application acceptance. I’ll have to check out some of those short stories.
Thanks, Robin!