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Favorite Short Stories
I find myself reading more and more of these lately. Here's a couple of my favorites:
The Captain's Daughter - Pushkin The Aleph - Borges The Bet - Chekhov What are some of yours?
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Lot's time 1st-August-2012, 10:42 AM #2 |
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft
Rats in the Walls - H. P. Lovecraft And pretty much any story written by Jennifer Spiegel
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
The Shot - Pushkin
Fatalist - Lermantov The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe The Angel of the Odd - Poe A Tell-Tale Heart - Poe Harrison Bergeron - Vonnegut The Crawling Chaos - Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu - Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror - Lovecraft The Monkey's Paw - Jacobs |
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1st-August-2012, 07:18 PM
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
I haven't read any Lovecraft yet. I'll definitely check some of his stuff out.
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
A Perfect Day For Bananafish - Salinger
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
Wig Time, by Alice Munro.
River of Toys. I forget the author's name.
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
A Rose for Emily - Faulkner
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Hemmingway Hills Like White Elephants - Hemmingway The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe |
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5th-August-2012, 02:53 AM
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
The Most Dangerous Game - Richard Connell
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
The Road Virus Heads North -Stephen King
The Lottery- Shirley Jackson We Ate the Children Last-Yann Martel
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11th-August-2012, 07:06 AM
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue - John Scalzi (up for a Hugo this year)
Medic - James White (early story in the Sector General series) The Seventh Voyage of Ijon Tichy - Stanislaw Lem Children's Story - James Clavell |
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13th-August-2012, 04:54 PM
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
I've always enjoyed science-fiction. So here is "The Last Question" by Asimov
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Tristan - Thomas Mann About this Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (essay collection) - Barry Lopez Various essays by Søren Kierkegaard I'm sure there are many more, but these seem to stand out for whatever reason. |
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
I haven't read many at all but I remember liking Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman.
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
The Chemical Marriage
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Re: Favorite Short Stories
So many good ones! Hmm
A fable by mark twain Three questions by Leo tolstoy Madeline Ludwig bemelmans The velveteen rabbit by Margery williams a christmas memory by Truman capote The book of job the bible Ferdenand the bull Munro leaf
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