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Today, Chris and Sarah talk about some of their favourite short stories and short story collections and what they think makes a good short story. They also discuss what they're currently reading. including discussions of death row and missing Russian mountaineers. Do you read short stories? Love or loathe?

Books/stories mentioned
How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb
Half A Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka
The Five by Hallie Rubenfeld
After The Eclipse by Sarah Perry
Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar [about the Dyatlov Pass incident]
The Merchant at the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin
After We Walked Away by Erika L. Satifka
All The Acorns On The Forest Floor by Kim Hooper
If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky
Storyland by Catherine McKinnon [only available outside of Australia via Amazone/Book Depository]
Off by Aimee Bender
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri [short story was Nobody's Business]
David Mitchell: Slade House, Cloud Atlas, and The Bone Clocks

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