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Independent Reading, Term 1, Short Stories

You have a minimum of four (4) short stories to find and read on your own. You CANNOT use the four (4) stories we're doing as a class. You also need to use crafted short stories - this is a genre in and of itself - it's different than fables or fairy tales or nursery rhymes or myths or legends or children's stories. So you cannot use those. This is a minimum. Read as many more as you like.

​This is the evaluation rubric. 
Here is Sauve's example.

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,  published by Persea Books, 2012:
  • "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 for you to find stories on your own:  
  • CommonLit
  • Absurdist fiction
  • The New Yorker online
  • Commaful.com
  • Flash fiction online 
  • Smoke Long Quarterly, an online magazine​​​
ALL four (4) Forms are due by Oct. 25th 5:00pm. No late marks deducted, but they cannot be submitted after Oct. 25th 5:00pm, as an extra 7 days has been allotted to submit any late work. Resubmissions will be due Nov. 15 by 5:00pm.
  • #1. Sept. 27 Sign into Teams. Click on View Assignment. Copy and Paste into the Form and click submit.
  • #2. Oct. 4​
  • #3. Oct. 12​​
  • ​#4. Oct. 18