Week of Stories - July 19

Stories read this week from over at A Year of Stories, Pirate.

Monday: “Essential Things” by Jorge Luis Arzola -
Tuesday: “The Twelve Oxen” by Italo Calvino * * *
Wednesday: “Seven Pieces of Severance” by Robert Olen Butler * *
Thursday: “Other People” by Neil Gaiman * * * * *
Friday: “Crack and Crook” by Italo Calvino * *
Saturday: “Shoofly” by Richard Matheson * * * * *
Sunday: “The Man Who Loved Flowers” by Stephen King * * *

My favorite story of the week was: “Shoofly” by Richard Matheson

From the review: “Matheson does a fantastic job of showing how someone can become obsessed by a distraction and take that distraction to an unhealthy extreme. It is both funny and sad because I’ve been in so many similar situations.”