Story366: 2016 in Date Order

January
January 1: Johnson, Adam. “Nirvana”
January 2: Makkai, Rebecca. “The Worst You Ever Feel”
January 3: Thompson, Jean. January 3: “The Witch”
January 4: Berlin, Lucia. “A Manual for Cleaning Women”
January 5: Lee, Rebecca. “Bobcat”
January 6: Southworth, Lucas. “There Isn’t Any Ghost”
January 7: Jones, Edward P. “Young Lions”
January 8: Michel, Lincoln. “The Room Inside My Father’s Room”
January 9: Eldridge, Courtney. “Summer of Mopeds”
January 10: Perrotta, Tom. “Nine Inches”
January 11: Mellas, Tessa. “Beanstalk”
January 12: Bates, Joseph. “Tomorrowland”
January 13: Campbell, Bonnie Jo. “Children of Transylvania, 1983”
January 14: Ruland, Jim. “Kessler Has No Lucky Pants
January 15: Vargas, Cyn. “Guate”
January 16: Burns, Suzanne. “The Resurrection of Debbie”
January 17: Parameswaran, Rajesh. “I Am an Executioner”
January 18: Link, Kelly. “Secret Identity”
January 19: Sparks, Amber. “The Cemetery of Lost Faces”
January 20: Hicks, Micah Dean: “The Hairdresser, the Giant, and the King of Roses”
January 21: Pashley, Jennifer. “And One Blue Pussy”
January 22: Taylor, Justin. “Mike’s Song”
January 23: July, Miranda. “The Swim Team”
January 24: Ellis, Helen. “Hello! Welcome to Book Club”
January 25; Lewis, Trudy. “The Bones of Garbo”
January 26: Walter, Jess. “We Live in Water”
January 27: Fincke, Gary. “A Room of Rain”
January 28: Fox, Wendy J. “The Car”
January 29: Nguyen, Phong. “Memory Sickness”
January 30: Everett, Percival. “Looking for Billy White Feather”
January 31: Gass, William H. “The Toy Chest”

February
February 1: Evans, Danielle. “Someone Ought to Tell Her There’s Nowhere to Go”
February 2: Brockmeier, Kevin. “The Lady With the Pet Tribble”
February 3: Tintocalis, Stacy. “The Tiki King”
February 4: Blackmon, W.D. “Blood and Milk”
February 5: Yates, Steve. “Forgery”
February 6: Budnitz, Judy. “Dog Days”
February 7: Millhauser, Steven. “A Report on Our Recent Troubles”
February 8: Kinder, R.M. “Going into Battle”
February 9: Dybek, Stuart. “Tosca”
February 10: ffitch, Madeline. “Valparaiso, Round the Horn”
February 11: Abbott, Lee K. “The View of Me From Mars”
February 12: van den Berg, Laura. “Opa-Locka”
February 13: Francis, H.E. “The Sudden Trees”
February 14: Spark, Debra. “A Wedding Story”
February 15: Gabriel, Jerry. “Reagan’s Army in Retreat”
February 16: Jones, Alden. “Shelter”
February 17: Butler, Nickolas. “Beneath the Bonfire”
February 18: Levy, E.J. “The Three Christs of Moose Lake, Minnesota”
February 19: Bower, Chris. “How I Became a Writer 1992”
February 20: Binder, L. Annette. “Galatea”
February 21: Doerr, Anthony. “Village 113”
February 22: McFawn, Monica. “Line of Questioning”
February 23: Keaton, David James. “Schrödinger’s Rat”
February 24: Valente, Anne. “By Light We Knew Our Names”
February 25: Gustine, Amy. “You Should Pity Us Instead”
February 26: Mayo, Wendell. “The Cucumber King of Kedainiai”
February 27: Panning, Anne. “Super America”
February 28: Honig, Lucy. “The Truly Needy”
February 29: Chaon, Dan. “Patrick Lane, Flabbergasted”

March
March 1: Day, Cathy. “Wallace Porter”
March 2: Mueller, Daniel. “How Animals Mate”
March 3: Heiny, Katherine. “Single, Carefree, Mellow”
March 4: Griffith, Michael. “Hooper Gets a Perm”
March 5: McCorkle, Jill. “Intervention”
March 6: Bass, Rick. “An Alcoholic’s Guide to Peru and Chile”
March 7: Wisniewski, Mark. “Three-Quarters Stitched”
March 8: Wilson, Gerry. “Appendix”
March 9: Ockert, Jason. “Jakob Loomis”
March 10: Alvar, Mia. “Legends of the White Lady”
March 11: Schuitema, Adam. “New Era, Michigan”
March 12: Munro, Alice. “Floating Bridge”
March 13: Alexie, Sherman. “War Dances”
March 14: Horrocks, Caitlin. “This Is Not Your City”
March 15: Elliott, Okla. “The Queen of Limbo”
March 16: Perabo, Susan. “Michael the Armadillo” 
March 17: McGlynn, David. “The End of the Straight and Narrow”
March 18: Jemc, Jac. “A Violence”
March 19: Stone, Robert. “The Archer”
March 20: Zafris, Nancy. “Stealing the Llama Farm”
March 21: Pietrzyk, Leslie. “Ten Things”
March 22: Ligon, Samuel. “Dirty Boots”
March 23: Ison, Tara. “Ball”
March 24: Watson, Brad. “Last Days of the Dog-Men”
March 25: Blakeslee, Vanessa. “Train Shots”
March 26: Shepard, Jim. “Boys Town”
March 27: Houston, Pam. “Waltzing the Cat”
March 28: Butler, Robert Olen. “Chicken”
March 29: Gay, Roxane. “There Is No ‘E’ in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You or We”
March 30: Housely, Dave. “Cialis”
March 31: Gray, Amelia. “Thank You”

April
April 1: Iredell, Jamie. “Fuckers”
April 2: Shipman, Christopher. “My Murderer Drew Me to the Murder Ballad”
April 3: Ellen, Elizabeth. “The Poet’s Head Is in My Lap”
April 4: Barrett, Colin. “Stand Your Skin”
April 5: Richmond, Michelle. “Medicine”
April 6: Lau, Carmen. “Familiar”
April 7: Dalton, Trinie. “Baby Geisha”
April 8: Drake, Monica. “Miss America Has a Plan”
April 9: Tanzer, Ben. “Anatomy of the Affair”
April 10: Shonkwiler, Eric. “Gripping the Heel”
April 11: Singer, Margot. “The Pale of Settlement”
April 12: Burch, Aaron. “Fair & Square”
April 13: Gautier, Amina. “Lost and Found”
April 14: Singleton, George. “Between Wrecks”
April 15: Bassen, L. Shapley. “Lives of Crime”
April 16: Novak, B.J. “No One Goes to Heaven to See Dan Fogelberg”
April 17: Flick, Sherrie. “Breakfast”
April 18: Muñoz, Manuel. “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue”
April 19: Brown, Danit. “Ask for a Convertible”
April 20: Pierce, Thomas. “Videos of People Falling Down”
April 21: Grow, Jen. “Joe Blow”
April 22: Garson, Scott. “Advent Santa”
April 23: Fordon, Kelly. “The Great Gatsby Party”
April 24: Wideman, John Edgar. “Who Invented the Jumpshot”
April 25: Benioff, David. “When the Nines Roll Over”
April 26: Milliken, Kate. “A Matter of Time”
April 27: Klay, Phil. “Redeployment”
April 28: Treat, Jessica. “Ants”
April 29: Gavin, Jim. “Illuminati”
April 30: Bernheimer, Kate. “A Doll’s Tale”

May
May 1: Russo, Richard. “The Whore’s Child”
May 2: Laskowski, Tara. “The Monitor”
May 3: Leung, Brian. “Six Ways to Jump Off a Bridge”
May 4: Kercheval, Jesse Lee. “Alice in Dairyland”
May 5: Kealey, Tom. “Thieves I’ve Known”
May 6: Lanier, Susan Hope. “Felecia Sassafras Is Fiction”
May 7: Griner, Paul. “Hotei”
May 8: Sheehan, Aurelie. “Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant”
May 9: Paloni, Jodi. “Wonder Woman”
May 10: Pitt, Matthew. “Attention Please Now”
May 11: Masih, Tara L. “The Sin Eater”
May 12: Horvath, Tim. “The Understory”
May 13: Williams, Diane. “Death Bed”
May 14: Moffett, Kevin. “Tattooizm”
May 15: Hagenston, Becky. “Scavengers”
May 16: Minor, Kyle. “You Should Go Out With Joy and Be Led Forward With Peace”
May 17: Bosworth, Beth. “The Source of Life”
May 18: Jodzio, John. “Ackerman Is Selling His Sex Chair for Ten Bucks”
May 19: Brown, Karen. “Swimming”
May 20: Somerville, Patrick. “Puberty”
May 21: Simpson, Helen. “Lentils and Lilies”
May 22: Lipsyte, Sam. “Old Soul”
May 23: Smith, Ali. “Erosive”
May 24: Bill, Frank. “Hill Clan Cross”
May 25: Black, Alethea. “I Knew You’d Be Lovely”
May 26: Martin, Michael Gerhard. “Shit Weasel Is Late for Class”
May 27: al-Shaykh, Hanan. “The Spirit Is Engaged Now (Do You Want to Hold?)”
May 28: Sanders, Ted. “Flounder”
May 29: Vivian, Robert. “Oly”
May 30: Bloom, Amy. “Rowing to Eden”
May 31: Ebenbach, David Harris. “Between Camelots”

June
June 1: Romo, Ito. “El Gato”
June 2: Macy, Caitlin. “Spoiled”
June 3: Farkas, Andrew. “The Committee for Standing on Shoulders”
June 4: Egan, Jennifer. “The Watch Trick”
June 5: Kirn, Walter. “Planetarium”
June 6: Viramontes, Helena María. “Growing”
June 7: Noyes, Anna. “Werewolf”
June 8: Hinton, Shane. “All the Shane Hintons”
June 9: Schummer, Darci. “The Sailor”
June 10: Lopez, Robert. “Goldbricks”
June 11: Rivecca, Suzanne. “Death Is Not an Option”
June 12: D’Ambrosio, Charles. “The Point”
June 13: Linse, Tamara. “How to Be a Man”
June 14: Mogelson, Luke. “Sea Bass”
June 15: Pritchard, Melissa. “The Case of the Disappearing Ingenue”
June 16: Walker, John Carr. “The Atlas Show”
June 17: Spatz, Gregory. “Half as Happy”
June 18: Marciano, Francesca. “The Italian System”
June 19: Baxter, Charles. “Bravery”
June 20: Atkinson, David S. “The Des Moines Kabuki Dinner Theater”
June 21: Founds, Kathleen. “When Mystical Creatures Attack!”
June 22: Lombardo, Billy. “The Logic of a Rose”
June 23: Parker, Erin K. “Red Velvet Couch”
June 24: Gifford, Barry. “The Ballad of Easy Earl”
June 25: Tuck, Lily. “La Mayonette”
June 26: Tenorio, Lysley. “Monstress”
June 27: Troy, Mary. “Mercy the Midget”
June 28: Rolnick, Josh. “Pulp and Paper”
June 29: Udall, Brady. “Letting Loose the Hounds”
June 30: Rodgers, Susan Jackson. “Bust”

July
July 1: Hallman, J.C. “The Hospital for Bad Poets”
July 2: Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien. “Talent”
July 3: Barth, John. “Toga Party”
July 4: Vallionatos, Corinna. “My Escapee”
July 5: Poissant, David James. “The Heaven of Animals”
July 6: Kamata, Suzanne. “Havana”
July 7: Trobough, Jon. “Bugout”
July 8: Pearlman, Edith. “How to Fall”
July 9: Jin, Ha. “Ocean of Words”
July 10: Eisenberg, Deborah. “Revenge of the Dinosaurs”
July 11: Smith, Curtis. “Murder”
July 12: Fowler, Heather. “Cock Sculpting”
July 13: Barkley, Brad. “Another Perfect Catastrophe”
July 14: Meijer, Maryse. “Heartbreaker”
July 15: Canty, Kevin. “A Stranger in This World”
July 16: Hadley, Tessa. “Phosophorescence”
July 17: Xingjian, Gao. “Cramp”
July 18: Barrodale, Amie. “Catholic”
July 19: Garstang, Clifford. “In an Uncharted Country”
July 20: Berg, Elizabeth. “The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted”
July 21: Vann, David. “A Legend of Good Men”
July 22: Helms, Beth. “American Wives”
July 23: Moody, Rick. “Demonology”
July 24: Johnson, Barb. “More of This World or Maybe Another”
July 25: Markus, Peter. “The Singing Fish”
July 26: McCracken, Elizabeth. “Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry”
July 27: Maliszewski, Paul. “Parable of the Fever”
July 28: Moore, Lorrie. “Foes”
July 29: Barkan, Joshua. “Forty”
July 30: Plummer, Toni Margarita. “The Bolero of Andi Rowe”
July 31: Davies, Peter Ho. “Everything You Can Remember in Thirty Seconds Is Yours to Keep”

August
August 1: Connor, Traci O. “Van Gogh Dreams”
August 2: Hale, Benjamin. “The Fat Artist”
August 3: Chase, Katie. “Man and Wife”
August 4: Bean, Zack. “Perseids”
August 5: Schiff, Rebecca. “http://www.msjiz.boxx374.mpeg”
August 6: Gates, David. “A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me”
August 7: Smith, Lee. “Fried Chicken”
August 8: Williams, Tom. “Among the Wild Mulattos”
August 9: Heti, Sheila. “The Favorite Monkey”
August 10: Epstein, Joseph. “Casualty”
August 11: Majka, Sara. “Cities I’ve Never Lived In”
August 12: Miller, J.R. “Book of Puzzles”
August 13: Cooper, J. California. “Somebody for Everybody”
August 14: Milward, Andrew Malan. “The Agriculture Hall of Fame”
August 15: Phillips, Jayne Anne. “Fast Lanes”
August 16: Varallo, Anthony. “In the Age of Automobiles”
August 17: Cox, Dinah. “Remarkable”
August 18: Hellenga, Robert. “Snapshots of Aphrodite”
August 19: Hirsch, Aubrey. “The Borovsky Circus Goes to Littlefield”
August 20: Brandon, John. “Prospectus”
August 21: McGraw, Erin. “The Return of the Argentine Tango Masters”
August 22: Martone, Michael. “Contributor’s Note”
August 23: Lin-Greenberg, Karin. “Faulty Predictions”
August 24: McManus, James. “Altar Boy”
August 25: Serber, Natalie. “Plum Tree”
August 26: Woodrell, Daniel. “Uncle”
August 27: Davis, Lydia. “The Dog Hair”
August 28: Banks, Russell. “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story”
August 29: Groff, Lauren. “Delicate Edible Birds”
August 30: Clarke, Brock. “The Son’s Point of View”
August 31: Quade, Kirstin Valdez. “The Five Wounds”

September
September 1: Mozina, Andy. “Quality Snacks”
September 2: Cook, Diane. “Meteorologist Dave Santana”
September 3: Ray, Shann. “When We Rise”
September 4: Bergman, Megan Mayhew. “Saving Butterfly McQueen”
September 5: Harmon, Joshua. “Rope”
September 6: Upton, Lee. “The Tao of Humiliation”
September 7: Durham, Gabe. “Come on the Hike”
September 8: Grossman, Judith. “How Aliens Think”
September 9: Pendarvis, Jack. “Sex Devil”
September 10: Nelson, Antonya. “The Control Group”
September 11: Orner, Peter. “Michigan City, Indiana”
September 12: Goldenstern, Joyce. “Communion Dress”
September 13: Greenfeld, Karl Taro. “Copper Top”
September 14: Hyde, Allegra. “Americans on Mars!”
September 15: Weinstein, Alexander. “Children of the New World”
September 16: McLean, Robin. “Cold Snap”
September 17: Leong, Russell Charles. “Phoenix Eyes”
September 18: Winterson, Jeanette. “The Poetics of Sex”
September 19: Booker, Brian. “Gumbo Limbo”
September 20: Allio, Kirstin. “Clothed, Female Figure”
September 21: Rowan, Matt. “The Mayor”
September 22: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Headstrong Historian”
September 23: Watson, Douglas. “Against Specificity”
September 24: Brown, Rosellen. “Paco, Dreaming”
September 25: Sodowsky, Roland. “Witch”
September 26: Hollander, Jessica. “The Year We Are Twenty-Three”
September 27: Bradley, Ryan W. “Nothing But the Dead and Dying”
September 28: Marquart, Debra. “The Hunger Bone”
September 29: Meno, Joe. “Miniature Elephants Are Popular”
September 30: Cohen, Garnett Kilberg. “Lost Women, Banished Souls”

October
October 1: Greenman, Ben. “Hope”
October 2: Chernoff, Maxine. “Signs of Devotion”
October 3: Schwartz, Steven. “Madagascar”
October 4: Yancy, Melissa. “Dog Years”
October 5: Haddon, Mark. “The Pier Falls”
October 6: Heuler, Karen. “The Apartments”
October 7: Lynn, David. “Fortune Telling”
October 8: Orringer, Julie. “When She Is Old and I Am Famous”
October 9: Boyle, T.C. “Sin Dolor”
October 10: Adnot-Haynes, Becky. “The Year of Perfect Happiness”
October 11: Thomas, Robert. “10 1/2”
October 12: Pancake, Ann. “Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley”
October 13: Vollmer, Matthew. “Scoring”
October 14: Hall, Rachel. “Heirlooms”
October 15: Dixon, Stephen. “Two Women”
October 16: Proulx, Annie. “People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water”
October 17: Cashion, Matt. “Last Words of the Holy Ghost”
October 18: Sanow, Anne. “Slow Stately Dance in Triple Time”
October 19: Ripatrazone, Nick. “Retreat”
October 20: Luongo, Margaret. “Word Problem”
October 21: Jackson, Greg. “Wagner in the Desert”
October 22: Kleeman, Alexandra. “Choking Victim”
October 23: Boswell, Robert. “Living to Be a Hundred”
October 24: Black, Robin. “If I Loved You”
October 25: Nelson, Kent. “Alba”
October 26: Lord, Nancy. “Wolverine Grudge”
October 27: TeBordo, Christian. “Three Denials”
October 28: Painter, Pamela. “The Kiss”
October 29: Wallace, Anthony. “Have You Seen This Girl?”
October 30: Schmidt, Heidi Jon. “Darling?”
October 31: Gaiman, Neil. “The Lunar Labyrinth”

November
November 1: Phan, Aimee. “Bound”
November 1: Kesey, Roy. “Bloodwood”
November 3: Hegi, Ursula. “The Juggler”
November 4: Haraway, Britt. “Germantown Players Club”
November 5: Brenner, Wendy. “I Am the Bear”
November 6: DeWan, Christopher. “The Atheist of Dekalb Street”
November 7: Meacham, Rebecca. “The Assignment”
November 8: Ryan, Patrick. “The Dream Life of Astronauts”
November 9: de Jesus, Noelle Q. “Cold”
November 10: Hoffman, Dustin M. “One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist”
November 11: Howard, Joanna. “In Duffy’s Plum Cricket”
November 12: Klimasewiski, Marshall N. “Tyrants”
November 13: Fraterrigo, Melissa. “The Longest Pregnancy”
November 14: Ortiz, Simon J. “Men on the Moon”
November 15: Tinti, Hannah. “Hit Man of the Year”
November 16: Simpson, Chad. “Tell Everyone I Said Hi”
November 17: Buckingham, Polly. “The Expense of a View”
November 18: Falco, Edward. “Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha”
November 19: Nelson, Karen. “Regret”
November 20: Warner, John. “Not Schmitty”
November 21: Benaron, Naomi. “Love Letters From a Fat Man”
November 22: McIlvoy, Kevin. “The Rhino in the Barn”
November 23: Block, Brett Ellen. “For Sale by Owner”
November 24: Bausch, Richard. “The Harp Department in Love”
November 25: Chang, Lan Samantha. “The Unforgetting”
November 26: Novakovich, Josip. “The Devil’s Celluloid Tail”
November 27: Holladay, Cary. “The Quick-Change Artist”
November 28: Montemarano, Nicholas. “If the Sky Falls, Hold Up Your Hands”
November 29: Sneed, Christine. “The Prettiest Girls”
November 30: Grandbois, Peter. “School Bus”

December
December 1: Colbert, Jaimee Wriston. “Wild Things I-Ghosts”
December 2: Fleming, Colin. “Potlatch”
December 3: Dermont, Amber. “Damage Control”
December 4: Yu, Charles. “Standard Loneliness Package”
December 5: Greenberg, Suzanne. “The Queen of Laundry”
December 6: Dawes, Kwame. “A Place to Hide”
December 7: Le Guin, Ursula K. “Sita Dulip’s Method”
December 8: Gonzales, Manuel. “Pilot, Copilot, Writer”
December 9: Oyeyemi, Helen. “‘Sorry’ Doesn’t Sweeten Her Tea”
December 10: Day, Robert. “The Billion-Dollar Dream”
December 11: Bernardi, Adria. “In the Gathering Woods”
December 12: Daniels, Jim Ray. “13-Part Story With Mime”
December 13: Balaskovits, A.A. “The Ibex Girl of Qumran”
December 14: Brazaitis, Mark. “An American Affair”
December 15: Walter, Laura Maylene. “The Clarinet”
December 16: Fearnside, Jeff. “The Cat People”
December 17: Hall, Tina May. “Visitations”
December 18: Ardizzone, Tony. “Larabi’s Ox”
December 19: Diehl, Dana. “Burn”
December 20: Grandbois, Daniel. “Happy Birthday Grandma”
December 21: Wells, Kellie. “Compression Scars”
December 22: Burgin, Richard. “Don’t Think”
December 23: Tabor, Mary L. “The Burglar”
December 24: Silver, Marisa. “What I Saw From Where I Stood”
December 25: Bell, Matt. “The Migration”
December 26: Miller, Mary. “Big Bad Love”
December 27: Marra, Anthony. “The Tsar of Love and Techno”
December 28: Watkins, Claire Vaye. “Graceland”
December 29: Jablonsky, William. “The Indestructible Man”
December 30: Collins, Kathleen. “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?”
December 31: Díaz, Junot. “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars”

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