Introduction

At first I thought of choosing the shortest stories I could, and some of those remain in the list below, but in the end I broadened my thinking as some stories kept pushing their way in. I did briefly wonder, after completing the list, why I don’t have any classic short story writers here – no Chekhov, Borges, Mansfield etc – and I think it’s because although I do love their stories, they don’t feel like they’re mine. The ones I’ve chosen do.