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.
This is a minimum. Read as many more as you like.

​This is the rubric.

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 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

You will need to track which four (4) stories you read on the tracking sheets provided which are due weekly, but by Oct. 19th the latest.

• #1. Sept. 20 Click on your group link. Sign in. Click on View Assignment. Fill in the form and click submit. ​ Grp 51       Grp 53       Grp 54       Grp 55
• #2. Sept. 27   Grp 51       Grp 53       Grp 54     Grp 55​ ​
• #3. Oct. 4       ​Grp 51       Grp 53       Grp 54     Grp 55​ ​​
• ​#4. Oct. 11     Grp 51       Grp 53       Grp 54     Grp 55​ ​​