Independent Reading, Term 1

You have a mandatory minimum of 4 short stories to find and read on your own. This is a minimum. Read as many more as you like.

Here are some recommended stories:

"The Dead Boy at your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
"Pine" by Zane Andrew
"The Cabin" by Phil Town
"Snow White Adopted" by J.D. Edwin
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 

From the anthology Sudden Flash Youth edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman:
"Half Sleep" by Matt Krampitz
"History" by Beth Alvarado
"The Flowers" by Alice Walker
"Between Practice and Perfection" by Azizat Danmole. 

Here are some useful websites to find stories: 
CommonLit
Absurdist fiction
The New Yorker online
commaful.com
this website for flash fiction online
the online mag Smoke Long Quarterly

You will need to track which 4 stories (or more) you read on this tracking sheet which is due Oct. 29.
And by Sept. 21 upload a story recommendation following these guidelines on Flipgrip.