Sunday readings

Don’t say I never gave you anything.

Here are seven free short stories you can start reading immediately, by everyone from John Updike to Ray Bradbury (including my old fave, Donald Barthelme). The good people at Nothingintherulebook have assembled them for your pleasure.

I haven’t made a habit of reading short stories over the last few years, but I can understand their appeal, given the demands on people’s time these days. Maybe they’re the perfect entrée to literary fiction for folks who don’t read much of it.