Monday October 12

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“Who’s-Dead McCarthy” by Kevin Barry

 

An unnamed narrator attempts to avoid the gloomy Con McCarthy, “connoisseur of death” and bearer of bad news in the streets of Limerick, Ireland. From Kevin Barry’s third collection That Old Country Music.

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2020, 11 pp 

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"The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril" by Scott Lynch

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When the powerful Malkuril falls to his death after tripping on his unlaced slippers, the housemind takes advantage of the resulting power vacuum and gets carried away in the process. From the story anthology The Book of Magic edited by Gardner Dozois.

 

2018, 50 pp

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Tuesday October 13

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Lisa Frankenstein

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Screenplay by Diablo Cody, directed by Zelda Williams

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After her mother is killed by an axe murderer, high school senior Lisa Swallows negotiates an evil step-mom, a new school, and a protective new friend: the 19th-century corpse of a young man recently reanimated by lightning.

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2024; 101 minutes

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Wednesday October 14

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Two rival agents tasked with manipulating the future begin a secret correspondence across time and space as their loyalty to their warring superiors wavers and their love for each other grows.

 

2019; 195 pp

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Thursday October 15

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“This Blessed House” by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

Sanjeev and Twinkle navigate the first few weeks of marriage in their new home, complicated by their discovery of—and opposing views towards-- the Christian paraphernalia left behind by the previous owners. From Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Interpreter of Maladies.

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1999; 22 pp

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“Louise’s Ghost” by Kelly Link

 

Louise-- with the help of her best friend who is also named Louise-- deals with a benign but unpredictable ghost haunting her apartment. From Kelly Link’s debut collection Stranger Things Happen.

 

2001; 36 pp

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Friday October 16

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While You Were Sleeping

 

Screenplay by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric Lebow

Directed by Jon Turteltaub

 

After a misunderstanding at the hospital, thirty-something Lucy pretends to be the fiancé of the comatose man whose life she's saved.

 

1995; 103 minutes

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