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I loved it! One of my favorite reads this year.

“Whoever finds these books, please take care of them.”

I deliberately left it unsigned — I wanted the books to remain free, without an owner.

A galley of Day Care in front of a duck shaped dish and a pocket Constitution there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book.

Tuesday December 9: "Her Cousin Lena" by Nora Lange. "Rose kept a notebook near and recorded her phone conversations with her mother, just because."

the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest

A galley of The Age of Calamities in front of a duck shaped dish there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book.

Monday December 8: "The Napoleons are Multiplying" by Senaa Ahmad. "In the end, the Napoleons rented a gangly house near the edge of town."

Phew! I’m not alone.

Good call!

I've been thinking about revisiting Housekeeping.

If a book doesn't grab me within a few pages I part ways with it

Intersecting tree branches against a blue sky.

Sun!

A galley of The Age of Calamities in front of a duck shaped dish there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book.

Sunday December 7: "Let's Play Dead" by Senaa Ahmad. "There was a man, let's call him Henry VIII. There was his wife, let's call her Anne B. Let's give them a castle and make it nice."

Waves on Lake Washington

Saturday morning.

Small dappled clouds, a still flag and wires between two office buildings.

Between two buildings

A copy of The Best American Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners posed in front of a duck shaped dish there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book.

Saturday December 6: "City Girl" by Alice Hoffman. "My father told me never to cross Tenth Avenue, but I didn't listen to him."

A copy of The Best Short Stories 2025 The O. Henry Prize Winners posed in front of a duck shaped dish there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book.

Friday December 5: "Shotgun Calypso" by Indya Finch. "We were on our way from Huntsville to Houston to pick up Lonnie because it was Saturday, and it seemed like every Saturday we were dragging our asses to River Oaks, wearing shoes without holes like we were going to church "

A galley of The Memory Museum in front of a duck shaped dish there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book. The Memory Museum is out in April from Graywolf Press

Thursday December 4: "Scenes from Childhood" by M Lin. "My window faces the last tree in our yard."

Alrighty! I just pulled my copy of a shelf and added it to my current stack.

Just what I was thinking.

A galley of Day Care in front of a duck shaped dish there's a pocket copy of the U.S Constitution behind the duck and there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book

Wednesday December 3: "Throwback" by Nora Lange. "Last night I was visited by a spirit I made out to be my friend Naomi, who in 2016 wisely fled to Canada."

Whoops! I accidentally attached my original post to the wrong photo. Pictured: A copy of The Best Short Stories 2025 O. Henry Prize Winners posed in front of a duck shaped dish there's a pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution behind the duck.

Tuesday December 2: "The Spit of Him" by Thomas Korsgaard; translated by Martin Aitken. "Kevin didn't have a rain jacket and for that reason he wasn't wearing one."

On my Baker's Dozen 2025 too!

Clouds and trees over Lake Washington

Monday December 1st

A copy of Sweet Talk in front of a duck shaped dish there's an overstuffed bookcase behind the book.

Monday December 1: "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog" by Stephanie Vaughn. "When I was twelve years old, my father was tall and awesome."

The stack: Sweet Talk The Age of Calamities The Best Short Stories 2025 O. Henry Prize The Memory Museum Day Care I Was Alive Here Once

The December short story stack!

Intersecting trees against a blue sky

Sun!

Foggy clouds over Lake Washington

Fog on the water.

Drive underneath the Seattle convention center lit by neon green overhead lights.

Sunday morning.

A copy of On Girlhood in front of a duck shaped dish there's an overstaffed bookcase behind the book.

Sunday November 30: "Fifth Sunday" by Rita Dove. "The church stood on a hill all to itself, at the intersection of Prospect and Maple."

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