Terrific story about a man and his son whose lives have retreated to an existence almost entirely within a fantasy game they are playing.
A woman is invited to a tribute for a man she had a strange relationship fifteen years earlier.
#364-Two Jewish sisters and their husbands, one secular, the other Hassidic, spoke pot, and discuss life. The title refers to a Jewish topic of discussion about which goy would hide them if the holocaust happened again. Great stuff.
In the future, scientists can bring back extinct species and a wooly mammoth is ST-3. Despite good care from the game show (where this is present to the public) host’s Mom’s good care ST-languishes. Funny, sad and a bit believable.
A woman who works at Home Depot is tested by her mother while trying to find love.
I am fast becoming a Roxane Gay fan. A black woman takes an academic position in northern Michigan and despite feeling very much the outsider, finds love. A great conceit is the idea that everyone assumes she is from Detroit due to her color. Actually she is from Nebraska. This would rank right near the top of the 355 stories I have read this year.
A woman remembers a happy day from her childhood when she and her parents take an extravagant trip through Italy.
#355-a young man tutors a recent emigre who has been asked to make a speech. What at first seems hopeless eventually leads to success. But not for the emigre.
#354-As the older residents are pushed out by the new ones, one woman cannot go along as easily as her neighbors.
A short story a day review 