Introduction

For this list, I decided to go simple. Twelve stories that I like today. You can search for themes if you wish. For me, these are all stories that resonate. They’ve moved me, surprised me, enlightened me, stayed with me. They have made me look at the world in a different way, perhaps only for a moment, but that’s enough, surely. These stories are not obscure, some have been listed many times, but I don’t think that rules them out. This is my list, after all. Making it has reminded me, if I ever needed reminding, how brilliant, weird, varied, life affirming, how glorious the short story form is.