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Here is the place for you to claim your spot and track your short fiction reading for 2022!

This is my spot. I will just list as I go - I am not putting up a goal as I do not read a lot of books that are short, so playing it by ear. lol :)

January:

It Sleeps at Dawn - 78 pages - read 1/1/2022
Peekers - 14 pages - read 1/18/2022
True Hauntings Of America: 13 of the Scariest Locations You Should Never Step Foot In - 96 pages - read 1/28/2022

February:

The Cabin - 90 pages - read 2/5/2022
The Cabin II: Asylum - 100 pages - read 2/6/2022
Gloop! - 50 pages - read 2/19/2022
Ghost Stories - 58 pages - read 2/25/2022
Dying Valentine - 24 pages - read 2/27/2022


May:

Loch Ness - 93 pages - read 5/4/2022

June:

Wax, Part One - 68 pages - read 6/18/2022
Wax, Part 2 - 67 pages - read 6/28/2022

July:

Wax part 3 - 68 pages - read 7/6/2022
Wax part 4 - 70 pages - read 7/15/2022
Wax part 5 - 67 pages - read 7/25/2022
Wax part 6 - 64 pages - read 7/27/2022

August:

At Your Service - 51 pages - read 8/14/2022
Donn, TX 1865 - 52 pages - read 8/24/2022

October:

Scarecrows - 41 pages - read 10/23/2022

December:

The Beauty Queen Killer - 43 pages - read 12/18/2022

Guess the list will be as short as the stories again…but why not?!

1. London Docks, 1852
2-13. 23 Uhr 12 - Menschen in einer Nacht
14-16. Geschichten aus dem Horrorhaus
17. Burying Little Annie (Brian James Freeman)
18-41. Advent (Daniel Pyle)

My spot :)

2022 Short Fiction:
January:
[Horror]
[SF]

2022 Short Fiction


January

Happy Dark Year by Calvin Demmer

2022 Short Fiction *1st timer*

I read thirty short books last year. Not a lot. I will probably read the same amount this year.

This is my spot...goal of 20 for 2022

My spot for shorts (Any story 150 pgs or shorter)
Short Singles
1. Quitters, Inc Stephen King 19 pgs
2. Circus of the Dead Seth Blackburn 32 pgs
3. The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1 Eddie Generous (editor) 68 pgs
4. Nightfall Short story Isaac Asimov 40 pgs
5. The Bird by Willow Rose 67 pgs
6. Nightfall by Daniel Barnett 140 pgs
7. Lullaby by Daniel Barnett 97 pgs
8. The Werewolf's 15 Minutes by Johnathan Maberry (audible)
9. The Pied Piper of the Undead by Michael Whetzel 53 pgs
10. The Pied Piper of the Undead 2 by Michael Whetzel 95 pgs
11. Survive Another Day by Baileigh Higgins 106 pgs
12. Twentieth Anniversary Screening by Jeff Strand 68 pgs
13. Night Train To Paris by David Gerrold 18 pgs
14. X by Jack Croxall 39 pgs
15. Wye by Jack Croxall 145 Pgs
16. The Pied Piper by Harold Schechter 39 pgs
17. Blood Lake Monster by Renee Miller 111 pgs
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Collections
1. Midnight in the Graveyard
2. Dusty's Diary Box Set: Apocalypse Series
3. Haunt of Southern-Fried Fear
4. Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth
5. Bad Sleep
6. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
7. Dead and Breakfast

2022 Short fiction

The Collection by Bentley Little 11/01/22- 29/01/22
1. The Sanctuary 12pgs
2. The Woods be Dark 14pgs
3. The Phonebook Man 8pgs
4. Estoppel 16pgs
5. The Washingtonians 20pgs
6. Life with Father 10pgs
7. Bob 10pgs
8. Bumblebee 22pgs
9. Lethe Dreams
10. Paperwork 14pgs
11. The Idol 18pgs
12. Skin 12pgs
13. The Man in the Passenger Seat 14pgs
14. Comes the Bad Times 10pgs
15. Against the Pale Sand 8pgs
16. Pond 18pgs
17. Roommates 12pgs
18. Llama 10pgs
19. Full Moon on Death Row 26pgs
20. The Show 10pgs
21. The Mailman 14pgs
22. Monteith 14pgs
23. Pillow talk 10pgs
24. Maya's Mother 22pgs
25. Colony 22pgs
26. Confessions of a Corporate Man 12pgs
27. Blood 14pgs
28. And I am Here, Fighting with Ghosts 14pgs
29. The Baby 12pgs
30. Coming Home Again 12pgs
31. The Potato 12pgs
32. The Murmurous Haunt of Flies 18pgs

Midnight From Beyond the Stars edited by Kenneth W. Cain 8/02/22
33. Attack of the Killer Tumbleweed! by Antonia Rachel Ward 20pgs
34. Abduction Annie by Ronald Kelly 18pgs
35. Roadkill by Samantha Kolesnik 12pgs
36. Embryo by Tim Curran 22pgs
37. Scan for Life by Jason Parent 11pgs
38. Unravelling by Stephanie Ellis 19pgs
39. Snow Blind by Kristopher Triana 20pgs
40. Death and Decay by Shelly Campbell 23pgs
41. The Fear of Fallen Leaves by James Newman 21pgs
42. The Bulge by Rob E. Boley 14pgs
43. Phantom Limb by Kay Hanifen 9pgs
44. Incident on Saddle Road by Brian Moreland 33pgs
45. Skin-Wrapped Gift by Chad Lutzke 9pgs
46. We Still Have Time by Amanda Headlee 22pgs
47. I Will Meet You There by Brennan LaFaro 16pgs
48. A Monstrous Hunger by Simon Clark 20pgs
49. To Sing with the Choir Invisible by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 20pgs
50. Too Many to Count by Jeremy Helper 15pgs

Ruth's 2022 Short Fiction List - 23 completed

Animal Farm by George Orwell (122 pp finished 1/4/22)
The Ghost of Shapley Hall by Amy Cross (137 pp finished 1/6/22)
b, Book, and Me by Kim Sagwa (160 pp finished 1/9/22)
Park Closes at Dusk by D.W. Nathan (26 pp finished 1/22/22)
The Exchange by Jon Langford (3 pp finished 1/22/22)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (22 pp finished 2/2/22)
Assembly by Natasha Brown (112 pp finished 2/10/22)
They Don't Come Home Anymore by T.E. Grau (104 pp finished 2/13/22))
Deep Snow by Justin Montgomery (14 pp finished 3/2/22)
Dear Laura by Gemma Amor (111 pp finished 3/5/22)
The Possession of Natalie Glasgow by Hailey Piper (46 pp finished 3/20/22)
The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (28 pp finished 4/9/22)
Wildlife by Jeff VanderMeer (57 pp finished 4/9/22)
The Backbone of the World by Stephen Graham Jones (54 pp finished 4/10/22)
Stag by Karen Russell (40 pp finished 5/3/22)
A Righteous Man by Tochi Onyebuchi (30 pp finished 5/5/22)
Bloody Summer by Carmen Maria Machado (28 pp finished 5/5/22)
Loch Ness by Matt Shaw (93 pp finished 5/15/22)
The Big Blue by Matt Shaw (109 pp finished 5/15/22)
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (73 pp finished 6/17/22)
Kutter by Jeff Strand (111 pp finished 6/26/22)
Hannah-Beast by Jennifer McMahon (49 pp finished 6/30/22)
Witch of the Water by B.B. Griffith (63 pp finished 7/31/22)

So, let me stir up the pot a little, what is your maximun pages for a short story?

1-99 pgs - Short
100-224 - Novella
225-499 - Book
500+ - Why?

For the record, I'm listing my novellas here also.

Badseedgirl wrote: "So, let me stir up the pot a little, what is your maximun pages for a short story?

1-99 pgs - Short
100-224 - Novella
225-499 - Book
500+ - Why?"

Excellent question!

Because I like finding helpful resources for interesting quick reads of various length and hope to provide that sort of reference point for my fellow bibliophiles, I’m including on my list everything up to 150 pages.

Flash Fiction (1-4p)
Short (5-35p)
Novelette (25-49p)
Novella (30-150p)

I like the idea of Novelette. My problem is I have read/reading/will read old Scifi novels. They are so short they skew my thoghts on a novel.

Badseedgirl wrote: "So, let me stir up the pot a little, what is your maximun pages for a short story?

1-99 pgs - Short
100-224 - Novella
225-499 - Book
500+ - Why?"

I like how you set this out - really cool!

So for me, I am only doing books that are under 100 pages. I think that ranges in the short fiction because I normally read books over 200 pages anyway.

I laughed at your 500+ = Why? as I just came off reading a fantasy series with each book totaling 600+ pages. So why indeed! LOL

I don't like short stories that go much beyond 40-45 pgs. but I guess I'd still consider them short up to around 100+. I have also gotten to the point where much more than 400-450 pages is why???? Ever hear of an editor???

Alan wrote: "I don't like short stories that go much beyond 40-45 pgs. but I guess I'd still consider them short up to around 100+. I have also gotten to the point where much more than 400-450 pages is why???? ..."

After 500 pages I just start asking myself, "Why not make it two books, Dude?". Although I have enjoyed the books I have read by him, this is the feeling I get from Brandon Sanderson.

I've decided to include any stories I read less then 150 pages.

Badseedgirl wrote: "So, let me stir up the pot a little, what is your maximun pages for a short story?

1-99 pgs - Short
100-224 - Novella
225-499 - Book
500+ - Why?"

500+ - Door Stopper? ;)

Ruth wrote:
"Flash Fiction (1-4p)
Short (5-35p)
Novelette (25-49p)
Novella (30-150p)"

Thanks for the explanation, I was always wondering about the different terms, especially novelette <-> novella, as they both translate to the same German word Novelle. But it seems easy to remember by the sound of it that novelette is the diminutive of novella.