Week of Stories - Mar. 22

Stories read this week from over at A Year of Stories, Pirate. (A week of two tales per author each day - the free time of vacation.)

Monday: “Making Do” by Italo Calvino * * * *
Monday: “Dry River” by Italo Calvino * *
Tuesday: “Return to Pleasure Island” by Cory Doctorow * * * *
Tuesday: “The Super Man and the Bugout” by Cory Doctorow * *
Wednesday: “20th Century Ghost” by Joe Hill * * * * *
Wednesday: “Pop Art” by Joe Hill * * * * *
Thursday: “Not Yet the End” Fredric Brown * *
Thursday: “Etaoin Shrdlu” Fredric Brown * * * *
Friday: “Deadman’s Road” by Joe R. Lansdale * * * * *
Friday: “The Long Dead Day” by Joe R. Lansdale * * *
Saturday: “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman * * * *
Saturday: “October in the Chair” by Neil Gaiman * * * *
Sunday: “Jerusalem’s Lot” by Stephen King * * * *
Sunday: “Graveyard Shift” by Stephen King * *

My favorite story of the week was: “Deadman’s Road” by Joe R. Lansdale

From the review: “I had been in the mood for a western – not old-timesy and tame, but something brutal and fierce. The addition of a supernatural element only added another level of pleasure to this tale.”