![]() ![]() Many of my picks for this list I stumbled across quite randomly in libraries or bookshops before I was 20 after that, I seem to have done my best to ignore contemporary short story collections, and to avoid the acknowledged masters of the form. The truth is, I’ve never really had a nose for the stuff a writer is supposed to have read. There were a few obvious choices for this list, but it wasn’t a question of what to leave out in fact, it took me quite a while to come up with twelve. I’ve hardly written any, and my dirty little book secret has always been that I never read short stories either. Though it’s already a modern classic, I only discovered this story a couple of years ago when I started teaching a course on writing short fiction, something I knew next to nothing about.
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