10,000’s favorite short fictions & verse: a would-be/should-be anthology
Works I wish I’d written – I carry them close … always – from writers I’m connected to – via face to face or the virtual world.
… six degrees of separation …
[Links to works included.]
10,000’s favorite short fictions & verse: a would-be/should-be anthology
short fictions…
“13 Ways of Looking at a Roadtrip” by Barry Graham
“10,000 Dollar Pyramid” by Robert Vaughan
“And She Flew” by Michelle Reale
“Arrows” by Lydia Copeland
“Backstory” by Katrina Gray
“The Big Dipper” by Meg Pokrass
“Complicit” by Gay Dagani
“Dear England, Please Send Me a Redheaded Boy” by Kate Hill Cantrill
“Descanso” by Jane Hammons
“Destination” by Carol Novack
“Ghosts of Breath” by Howie Good
“Gymnopédie Set” by Scott Garson
“How to Rescue a Drowning Man” Heather Fowler
“I Had Time to Kill” by Kim Chinquee
“The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, Relatives and Gin” by Rae Bryant
“Love, Story” by Michelle Elvy
“Marionettes” by David Erlewine
“Mockingbird” by Len Kuntz
“Most of Them Would Follow Wandering Fires” by Amber Sparks
“My Crush on Daniel Ortega” by Ann Bogle
“My First Serial Killer” by Julie Innis
“Of All 2,000 Years” by Joseph Young
“Organic BJ’s” by Susan Tepper
“Pulitzer grade” by James Lloyd Davis
“Radio Talkers” by James Robison
“The Rhythm of the Cows” by Catherine Davis
“Rites of Spring” by Marcus Speh
“Shatter” by Ethel Rohan
“Sinister Age of the Draft” by Meg Tuite
“Soft Like Snow” by Jen Knox
“Sovetskoye Shampanskoye” by Berit Ellingsen
“Space Man” by Kathy Fish
“A Swallow of Cola” by Michelle McEwen
“Sweet Sour” by Sheldon Lee Compton
“Wanderer” by Susan Gibb
“We All Fall Down” by Lauren Becker
“The Weight of Water” by Roxane Gay
“Where She Was” by Kelly Cherry
“Wild Wolves” by Mel Bosworth
“Wolf Cry” by Sara Lippmann
“Xarles, Xavier, and Xenos” by Matt Bell
“You Enjoy Myself” by Frank Hinton
verse…
“9 Dreams” by Cami Park
“Against Ted Hughes” by Don Wentworth
“Ants” by Vicki Hudspith
“atlantis made easy” by Evie Shockley
“At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border” by William Stafford
“Basho Solo” by Steve Lautermilch
“Blackbirds” by Greg Rappleye
“The Chinese Poet Visits the Hermit’s Cave with the Hope of Finding His Old Friend” by Jeff Daniel Marion
“Colors passing through us” by Marge Piercy
“A un Desconocido” by Lorna Dee Cervantes
“Dust” by Dorianne Laux
“The Ear is an Organ Made for Love” by E. Ethelbert Miller
“Feeding the Fire” by Edison Jennings
“Gacela of Animal Wisdom” by J.P. Dancing Bear
“Getting Godless” by Bill Yarrow
“Goldfish: A Diptych” by Susan Terris
“The Gospel of Barbecue” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“Greek” by T. R. Hummer
“How to Cook a Wolf” by Adrian Blevins
“The Identity in My Crisis” by Amy King
“In the Woods – A Shot – Fraught with Barking Dogs” by Arlene Ang
“The Kingfisher” by Amy Clampitt
“The Language of Rain” by Bill Brown
“The Last Cricket in Ohio Sings a Song of Wilderness” by David Citino
“Let the Words Fall Where They May” by Rita Sims Quillen
“My Turn Out of the Box” by Felicia Mitchell
“Playing for Keeps” by Ann Richman
“The Psalmist, After Johnny Cash’s ‘Oh Bury Me Not’” by Virgil Suárez
“Red Dirt Blues” by doris davenport
“Salamander” by James Owens
“Science” by James Valvis
“She Had Some Horses” by Joy Harjo
“Sick Well” by Paul Hostovsky
“Something to Believe In” by Nell Maiden
“speak truth?” by Daphne Gottlieb
“[state of emergency]” by Barbara Jane Reyes
“The Tulip Thief, Mi Amor” by Suzanne Frischkorn
“What the Water Knows” by Sam Hamill
“Why I Wear My Hair Long” by Marilyn Kallet
“Wild Strawberries” by Ralph Coleman
“Wildwood Flower” by Kathryn Stripling Byer
“World is Weird” by Eleni Sikélianòs
“You” by Sandra Beasley
“You As Wreath” by Rose Hunter
sam of the 10,000 things 
Stunned and flattered. Wow.
humbled, honored, and so happy to be included here with writers I greatly admire. Thank you, Sam.
thank you, sam, as always. it is wonderful and flattering to have you as a reader, editor and supporter and, as noted, the company of women and men there is outstanding, all of them favorites of mine as well. inspired cheers from berlin.
Thank you, Sam, for including me on a list with Evie and dorissima!
Thank you for including me in this wondrous and talented group!
This is amazing, I had no idea and am thrilled to be a part with these wonderful colleagues. Thanks Sam, very much!
This is an honor Sam. Thank you. I love these writers and their work and it warms me so.
Thanks, Sam! A wonderful list to be on, both because of who else is on it and because it’s your list.
shucks!
What an honor to be among such talented, admirable writers, Sam. The only thing missing is one of your pieces.
Thanks, Sam! Super sweet to be included–plus, you’ve given me links to some new (to me) stories and poems to read.
Sam, what a great list, and I am honored to be on it. Wow!
Yay! I love this, Sam! Thanks!
Thanks so much for including me in this list, Sam. I look forward to reading through these works.
Oh Sam you are so kind. I feel honored this morning. 🙂 Thanks!
Such an honor, Sam. Thank you. Fantastic list of stories and writers. Yes, very honored.
Wow. I am flattered. Sam, thank you so much! xo
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thanks bro. great list.
Thank you, Sam! Super flattered, and also super excited to read some of the works on here I’m unfamiliar with. (And re-read a few I’d forgotten about.)
Just re-read the Joy Harjo poem which I’ve always loved, and which I taught from some years ago. Sam, glad it’s one that you love also and that I got to see it again.
What a marvelous collection. An awesome list, one to savor. Many of these I’ll enjoy again, and some for the first time. Such a group of writers and people — I’m honored to be included among these folks in this would-be anthology!
This reads like a “who’s who” in literature..
honored and humbled, sam. thank you.
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Sovetskoye Shampanskoye in Sam Rasnake’s story list « Berit Ellingsen – Fiction Writer said this on November 7, 2011 at 5:53 pm |
Hi Sam!
Thank you so much for adding Sovetskoye Shampanskoye to your list!
I am deeply honored to have a story on such a list of truly strong and memorable work.
When I first saw your blog I read almost all the stories in the list and was impressed by all of them. Didn’t think my work would be added to it.
Thank you very much!
Love,
Berit