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Please recommend a short story to me
hey every one what are the best short stories out there. That you could recommend me. it doesnt matter if its horror, suspense, science fiction, drama anything. thank you
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Originally Posted by kevinlord190
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman A Boy and His Dog An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Catskin The Albertine Notes Minority Report Sales Pitch Roadside Picnic |
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1st and 2nd edition have a little crossover but not much; they're both great) is $20 and had fifty great stories, including:
- "We Didn't" by Stuart Dybek - "The Ceiling" by Kevin Brockmeier - "Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story" by Russell Banks - "Caviar" by T.C. Boyle - "Boys" by Rick Moody - "The Way We Live Now" by Susan Sontag - "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan - "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" by Denis Johnson - "Brownies" by ZZ Packer - "Xmas Jamaica Plain" by Melanie Rae Thon - "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien ...and a lot more. |
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Get Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From collection.
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The Long Walk To Forever - Kurt Vonnegut (from Welcome to the Monkey House)
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The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
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Three of my favorites are:
"Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville The Melville shorts are often published together, and should be easy to find. Also, they are in the public domain so you should also be able to find them in their entirety online. Check the Gutenberg Project. I have also become a fan of P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. They've been published in book form, but only a few of the books are actual full-length stories. The bulk of them are collections of "Jeeves" short stories. |
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Stories I've recently read that I enjoyed:
Poor Old Bill - Lord Dunsany http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a3072.pdf The Hoard of the Gibbelins - Lord Dunsany http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/d_hoard.htm |
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I recommend Fredrick Brown's "Knock". It's very short:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. The End |
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"We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" by Neil Gaiman (actually, I really enjoy almost all of his short stories).
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The Hellbound Train by Sum Dum Phuc.
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Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
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"Beverly Home" by Denis Johnson
"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor "Greasy Lake" by T.C. Boyle "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff "Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick "Green is the Color" by John M. Ford "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" by Terry Carr "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes "Evening Primrose" by John Collier "The Autopsy" by Micheal Shea "Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner Okay, this list is getting long, but off the top of my head, those are some I remember liking a lot. |
Here's something I prepared earlier....
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Originally Posted by benedict
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.... I think it is difficult to make recommendations without knowing a little more background....
.... if <b>I</b> was embarking on a short story adventure, I'd probably first check the library and try a few mixed "Best of Year" type anthologies and perhaps also seek out collections from any recent prizewinning writers. There are also magzines. In the science-fiction field, for example, you could try "ASIMOVs SF" or the UK publication "INTERZONE". Most likely, there is an abundance of short fiction <A HREF="http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Short_Story/Classics/" target="_blank">on the web</a>. Here is a genre site with a few tiny tales: http://www.crimelibrary.com/fiction/ And here is another that gives details of what stories individual SF authors have online at any time (and more): http://www.freesfonline.de/Authors.html Aside from Interzone, I hardly read short fiction these day. If presssed for recommendations I'd probably say Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and Cordwainer Smith but these stem from memories of quite some time ago. (If his full-length works are anything to go by, Gene Wolfe would also be in my list of recommendations).
Originally Posted by benedict
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Too busy to come up with any original suggestions at the moment but you might like to try here for science fiction, general, mystery, fantasy, online and contemporary short stories.
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Benedict has a good point. In terms of anthologies, I'm a fan of "Best American Short Stories" yearly volumes, as well as the "O. Henry Award Winners," "Scribner Anthologies of Contemporary Short Fiction," and literary magazines like Tin House, Barrelhouse, and Glimmer Train.
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Originally Posted by dogmatica
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- "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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Originally Posted by Nick Danger
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That was hard to read. It must be the translation that makes it so flat. Stanislaw Lem praised the story.
I loved it Nick. Different strokes I guess. |
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My two faves from King are the Mist and Cain Rose Up. Of course, CRU has a totally different tone in light of the last decade of current events.
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After 20 Years by O Henry - my very favorite by this author.
You can read it here: ----------------------> http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/44/ Enjoy! |
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"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
"The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arther C. Clarke "-All You Zombies" by Robert H. Heinlein "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft |
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Originally Posted by Dr. Mantle
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"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
"The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arther C. Clarke "-All You Zombies" by Robert H. Heinlein "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft Spoiler:
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Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
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Hmmm.
I loved it Nick. Different strokes I guess. |
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Originally Posted by Numanoid
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When did 126 pages become a short story?
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My Father's Mask by Joe Hill (King's son). I've read that story several times, and it still gives me chills.
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How about some free ones?
Kelly Link, "The Girl Detective" http://alexwilson.com/telltale/kelly...irl-detective/ (free text and audio) Robert R. McCammon, "The Miracle Mile" http://www.robertmccammon.com/fiction/miracle.html (free text) Neil Gaiman, "Snow Glass Apples" http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stor...w-glass-apples (free text) Jo Walton, "At the Bottom of the Garden" http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/garden.htm (free text) |
Since Numanoid bumped this thread I might as well suggest a couple:
The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell. Haven't read it in decades but I still remember it. (Same with The Lottery mentioned by others above). The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, by Mark Twain (1899). A humorous look at human nature, with Twain at his cynical best. A more famous, and very short, story by Twain is The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867), a good example of his ear for vernacular speech. (Twain later expressed reservations about how famous his throw-away short story had become, but he reprised it in several versions, so he couldn't have been too displeased with it.) I don't like this story because it is too macabre for me, but fans of the horror genre might like The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (1846). |
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"The Green Door" by O Henry is about a man who lives a predictable life. But "The most interesting thing in life seemed to him to be what might lie just around the next corner." Finally, one night in the middle of his extraordinarily ordinary life, on a routine walk down a nondescript street, Adventure beckons, and he responds with his whole heart and soul.
hope you will read it, its available in online for free |
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I hated his stuff when I read it in high school, but I've really come around on Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown" is a particular favorite. It's got great atmosphere, and it's very unsettling.
Also, I would recommend Christina Rosetti's poem "The Goblin Market." Yeah, it's a poem and not a short story, but it's rare that I like any work of poetry. It tells a story, rather than just throwing out aborted sentences insisting that flowers represent all that is good in life or whatever kind of crap poets tend to babble about. It's about two sisters who sneak off to the woods, and encounter some goblins selling fruit. It's very sensuous, and a great companion piece to "Young Goodman Brown" if you're willing to take the time to read them in the same night. |
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The Yellow Wall Paper
Barn Burning A Rose for Emily |
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Originally Posted by writer106
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The Yellow Wall Paper
Barn Burning A Rose for Emily |
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A Sound of Thunder
Harrison Bergeron (I think that's how you spell it) Sucker The Veldt was another good one Sure I read these all in around middle school, but I still remember them...good stories. |
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Another vote for Harrison Bergeron. It's excellent.
Also, "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk. |
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I buy The Best American Short Stories collection every year and inevitably find one or two authors I realy like, and then just go from there. Tobias Wolff is a personal favorite.
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Originally Posted by Sean O'Hara
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I recommend Fredrick Brown's "Knock". It's very short:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. The End The last man on Earth sat alone in a room with no windows, behind a locked door. And that door was locked from the outside. |
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