As anyone who knows me must realise by now, I love the short story form.

I thought it would be interesting to see how many short stories I can read in a year…

Then I thought that the posts I would do would be a bit too big for Twitter and a bit too short for a blog post and was wondering what to do.

I then remembered that I have a Ko-Fi and since I really want to start using it a bit more, therefore Ko-Fi is where the short review post will go when I have finished reading a short story and I’ll link to it from the book it’s in.

First of all there will be the obligatory list of books I’ve already got to read from (in progress) and each book will get it’s own page, and the way I’m going to choose is to use a random number generator to choose a book and then the same to choose a story in the book:

1. 19 Claws and a Black Bird
2. 24 Stories
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. Asimov’s Science Fiction: April 2011
5. Asimov’s Science Fiction: March 2011
6. Asimov’s Science Fiction: February 2011
7. Asimov’s Science Fiction: January 2011
8. Asimov’s Science Fiction: December 2010
9. Asimov’s Science Fiction: October 2021
10. Asimov’s Science Fiction: September 2010
11. Asimov’s Science Fiction: August 2010
12. The Book of Newcastle: A City in Short Fiction
13. The Book of Sheffield: A City in Short Fiction
14. Bloody Scotland: 10th Anniversary
15. The Complete Chronicles of Conan
16. Conan Omnibus: The Young Swordsman
17. Crossing the Tees: The Sixth Short Story Compilation
18. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
19. The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror
20. The Devil and the Giro: The Scottish Short Story
21. The Devourer Below
22. Dragon Lords and Warrior Women
23. Elric of Melnibone and Other Stories
24. Exhalation
25. Extinct Doesn’t Mean Forever
26. famished
27. The Fahrenheit Twins and Other Stories
28. Fen
29. First Contact: Digital Science Fiction Anthology 1
30. Fritz Leiber Super Pack #1
31. Ghost Stories of Antiquity
32. Ghost Stories of Antiquity Part 2: More Ghost Stories
33. Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
34. Her Body and Other Parties
35. Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
36. Hit Parade of Tears
37. Household Tales
38. Robert E. Howard Ultimate Collection
39. Igifu
40. Infinite Stars
41. Infinities
42. Isolation: The Horror Anthology
43. Kick the Latch
44. The Kimota Anthology
45. Kzine Issue 1
46. Kzine Issue 2
47. Kzine Issue 3
48. Life Ceremony
49. Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet
50. The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories
51. The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
52. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (20th Anniversary Edition)
53. The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF
54. The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF
55. The Mammoth Book of SF Short Stories by Women
56. The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
57. The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
58. Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond
59. Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventure
60. Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities
61. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird
62. The New Abject
63. New Suns
64. New Suns 2
65. Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba
66. Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
67. Past the Borders: Collected Science Fiction
68. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
69. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
70. Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
71. Reverse Engineering II
72. Jean Rhys: The Collected Short Stories
73. The Road to Dune
74. Salt Slow
75. The Sea Cloak
76. The Second Conan Omnibus: The Master Swordsman
77. Snapshots of the Apocalypse
78. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2016 Edition
79. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2019 Edition
80. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2021 Edition
81. Space Crone
82. A Strange Collection of Stories
83. Tales of Dune: Expanded Edition
84. Tales of Mystery & the Macabre
85. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
86. Things in the Dark: A Fox Pocket Anthology
87. The Time Traveller’s Almanac
88. Twenty Tiny Tales by Willie Wat
89. Twenty Tiny Tales and a few tails
90. Twiggy Woman
91. Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
92. Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Short Stories

plus many more sci-fi, horror, and fantasy collections I got on the Kindle ages ago, and I’ll be adding more collections/anthologies to this list as I go along.

So the plan is to read a short story a day, write something about it on the anthology/collection page, and tweet about that post when I’ve finished.

If you have a favourite collection or anthology that I’ve missed why not let me know?