The Short Reads project, week 1

The project I gave myself for 2018, at the turn of the year, was to read a short story a day for every day of the year.  This was amended on the sixth day of the year to include short nonfiction, essays and whatnot.  The intent of this was to spend less time scrolling through Twitter and Facebook on my lunch breaks.  I've been working mostly nights, lately, and my lunch break is generally spent in the office, since the rule seems to be the further I get from the store's front end, the more likely it will be that I'm called back to the front.  So, instead of scrolling endlessly through Facespace, I'll just find something to read.

So far, I'm pretty thankful for the Kindle app, as well as Americanliterature.com which has a lot of public domain stuff.....

The loose rules: 

• No reading the same author two times in a row, or three times in the same rolling week.
• No reading from the same anthology two times in a row, or three times in the same rolling week
• Short stories may come from any source, published, unpublished, online or not.
• Nonfiction must come from a published source.  (A dubious rule, but in my head, it means vetted by another person, and not something simply that pops up on a blog somewhere....)

Here's what I read in the first week:

January 1      "Night Surf"       Stephen King

January 2      "A Rose for Emily"        William Faulkner

January 3      "Ching Witch!"      Ross Rocklynne

January 4      "I am the Doorway"      Stephen King

January 5      "Bivouac of the Dead"     Ambrose Bierce

January 6     "Twins and Twinning in Stephen King's Dark Tower Novels"   Robin Furth

January 7      "A Lost Masterpiece"         A.A. Milne