To celebrate our Best Books of 2010 series, which continues Monday, we’re giving away a free paperback copy of The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. Everyone who commented on Chamber Four this week, replied or retweet us on Twitter, or commented or like any of our Facebook posts was entered into the drawing. You can read all the story descriptions we posted through this link.

For the drawing itself, we used the tried and true method of writing names and handles on scraps of paper, and mixing them up in a hat. The winner is commenter Gaby, who took the time to comment on Sara Lehoullier’s I Loved This Book When entry on The Sun Also Rises.

For those of you who aren’t Gaby, you can buy a paperback copy of the anthology at the Harvard Book Store, and you can always download the ebook for free. We’ll probably do similar giveaways again real soon, in the meantime, check out our Best Books of 2010 series for suggestions of what to read next.

[Every day this week, we're posting a quick description of a story from The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. Comment on this post---or any other post before midnight tonight (11/19/10)---for a chance to win a paperback copy of the anthology. More details here. Follow the whole series here.]

Seven Little Stories About Sex, by Eric Freeze

Presented in seven short vignettes, this story perfectly captures one man’s life through his sexual maturity. It begins with a young boy’s curious first kiss on his blue-furred teddy bear, and works all the way up to a wife’s pregnancy several decades later. “Seven Little Stories” does an excellent job of capturing a large scope with a small lens; plus it’s moving, a bit sad, and as well-written as anything in the entire Chamber Four Fiction Anthology.

Read “Seven Little Stories About Sex” in its original environment at Boston Review. Download the entire Chamber Four Fiction Anthology for free here.

[Every day this week, we're posting a quick description of a story from The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. Comment on this post---or any other post before Friday (11/19/10) at midnight---for a chance to win a paperback copy of the anthology. More details here. Follow the whole series here.]

The Next Thing on Benefit, by Castle Freeman, Jr.

Sharon isn’t in the habit of running away to tropical islands with strange, wealthy men, but when she wanders into the seemingly charmed life of Duncan Munro, it seems like a good time to try something new. Her last real lover is only a memory, and Duncan isn’t like any other man she’s ever known. He’s honest about keeping secrets. He says nothing about his business or his family life. He tells her that there are things he isn’t telling her. Going with Duncan may not be the best idea Sharon’s ever had, but it’s the one she has now. Joining Duncan and his British valet, Patrick, she takes off on the first private jet ride of her life to find out what can happen when you go to a private island in the Caribbean with a man you hardly know.

Read “The Next Thing on Benefit” in its original environment at the New England Review. Download the entire Chamber Four Fiction Anthology for free here.

[Every day this week, we're posting a quick description of a story from The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. Comment on this post---or any other post before Friday (11/19/10) at midnight---for a chance to win a paperback copy of the anthology. More details here. Follow the whole series here.]

Dragon, by Steve Frederick

One morning, after drinking some bourbon and vodka, Wyatt decides to use a can of gas and some matches to rid his fence line of tumbleweeds. After setting his yard on fire and deeply upsetting his wife, Wyatt hops in his truck and starts driving, perhaps looking for his lost youth.  What Wyatt finds in the next 24 hours—his long-time friend, Simms, a woman whose entire backside is tattooed with a colorful dragon, the old caretaker of a cemetery and an abandoned church—will change everything about the way Wyatt views his life. But it all may happen too late to matter.

Read “Dragon” in its original environment at Night Train. Download the entire Chamber Four Fiction Anthology for free here.

[Every day this week, we're posting a quick description of a story from The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. Comment on this post---or any other post before Friday (11/19/10) at midnight---for a chance to win a paperback copy of the anthology. More details here. Follow the whole series here.]

How to Assemble a Portal to Another World, by Alanna Peterson

This quick, surreal story alternates between a scientific voice describing the specifics of assembling a portal to another world, and the seemingly more ordinary story of a girl who meets a guy.

In less than a thousand words, these two narratives knot around each other and create a mesmerizing meditation on sanity and bravery, loneliness and the possibilities of escape. It’s a intricate, sharply written story that you’ll have to read more than once.

Read “How to Assemble a Portal to Another World” in its original environment at failbetter.com. Download the entire Chamber Four Fiction Anthology for free here.

[Every day this week, we're posting a quick description of a story from The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. Comment on this post---or any other post before Friday (11/19/10) at midnight---for a chance to win a paperback copy of the anthology. More details here. Follow the whole series here.]

The Naturalists, by B.J. Hollars

Teenaged Frankie’s father, always the optimist, decides he and his son will move to the Nature’s Bounty nudist colony after Frankie’s mother leaves him for the point guard of the San Antonio Spurs. The first rule of nudist colonies: erections are frowned upon. Yet Frankie’s father sports one constantly. He sticks out (literally), yet seems to be having the time of his life. Frankie, rather unlike the surly teen one would expect from such a situation, approaches his father’s mid-life crisis with humility and humor. “The Naturalists” contains perhaps the best one-on-one basketball scene ever put to paper and stands out as one of the funniest stories in The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology.

Read “The Naturalists” in its original environment at storySouth. Download the entire Chamber Four Fiction Anthology for free here.