This quest involves the reading of one or more short stories that fit within at least one of the four genres during the course of any weekend, or weekends, during the challenge. Ideally you would post about your short story readings on Sundays or Mondays...
Fantasy
Folklore - Bells by Hugh Lupton
Fairy tale
Mythology - Wildfire in Manhattan by Joanne Harris
Today is one of those days where reading a short story really is something of a challenge - I have a pile of lovely long books on the go that I want to read instead! I picked up a book of short stories chosen by Neil Gaiman - but I seem to have read all the best ones... so I picked up the Joanne Harris book again - but the next story didn't fit any of my categories up above, and there's no guarantee that any of the stories left would. But the third book on my short story pile was one I bought a week ago when I went to visit Walsingham in Norfolk - Norfolk Folk Tales. The book is by a chap called Hugh Lupton, who I'd never heard of, but now that I look at the back blurb, the Guardian describes him as "a Master-Storyteller", and I did rather enjoy the stories I'd read so far from it, so... the only thing was, there's so many folktales in there, that I can barely choose something that qualifies as a "short story"...
( Finally I settled on a story about... )
