Not to mention I am about 6 months late. Writing stories with no names is interesting. I have been writing all my short stories nameless. It just feels right.

Jessica Grant’s “Making Light of Tragedy.” (There’s no one else like her. offkilter and unpredictable, and wonderfully fresh language)

Amy Jones “What Boys Like” (The stories in this colelction experiment with POV and narrative structure in an exciting way. Loved it, except the opener didn’t fit with the others)

Joey Comeau “Overqualified” (It’s basically a novel in shorts, but those shorts are cover letetrs to jobs … that get off track about his personal life.)

Love the langauge and style in Michael Winter’s ‘One Last Good Look,” and Lisa Moore’s “Open,” and Russell Wangersky’s the Hour of Bad Decisions.”

The vivacity in Lynn Coady’s “Play the Monster Blind.”

Do read Pasha Malla’s “Teh Withdrawal Method” and Lee henderson’s “The Broken Record technique”

Kathleen Winter’s “boYs” was a very fun, very well-written collection, that was nothing at all like Annabel.

Look into some of these 2011 collection I am excited about:

Jessica Westhead – And Also Sharks
Matthew J. Trafford – The Divinity Gene
Zsuzi Gartner – Better Living Throguh Plastic Explosives
Michael Christie – The Beggar’s Garden

… should I have said just one? Bored and waiting on a phone call.