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My choices are, simply, 10 tales from this century that I have read and that I think do something interesting or startling or just downright swoony with the form of the short story. I look forward to having my reading horizons broadened in the comments.
With this story, and the rest of the collection it comes from, Tenth of December, he was clearly taking his gifts for voice, character, and satire, and pushing himself to do something much harder and more humane. This story starts awkwardly, in tune with its two gangly teenage protagonists, and stutters through a lovely character study to suddenly burst into an action tale and an unlikely outbreak of heroism. This story begins at the dawn of time and ends round about now, which is expansive enough for anyone, I feel.
It also has beautiful sentences, and there are not enough of those in the world. A real feat of imagination, and all the more terrifying for being set in the made-newly-strange streets of my Norwich childhood. Fjord of Killary by Kevin Barry Barry is great at drawing you quickly into the confidence of his voice; the first few sentences of any of his stories have that quality of strapping you in for the ride.
The News of her Death by Pettina Gappah Five women talking in a hair salon while one of them has her braids done: This story, of a robbery that starts off violent before fizzling out into a chat about football and a lift home, is told in a jarringly languorous and anecdotal tone, which both draws you in and leaves you uncomfortably dissonant. The rabbit lays an egg.
Things get stranger and darker, and Blasim lays his tale out with a wonderfully dry bar-room simplicity that makes the ending all the more explosive. Written in a misleadingly offhand deadpan, Track covers seemingly familiar ground — an abusive relationship, a young woman adrift in the big city, the pitfalls of fame and money — at such an oblique angle that it demands repeated reading.
I have plumped for this simply because it is so painfully funny. The Emerald Light in the Air by Donald Antrim This is a stone-cold masterpiece, as you will see by following the link above. Located right next to the terminal buildings the car park offers the most convenient and hassle-free facility for picking up or dropping off travellers.
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