What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (QJaz) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:27:21 GMT

CUBic Zirconiyum wrote:

QJaz wrote:
"Story of an Hour" - I can't remember the author.

Kate Chopin. I almost listed this one, but I like the concept of the story more than I liked the writing itself.

Thanks CZ. I love David Sedaris too. Total agreeance with whomever praised his audiobooks.

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (cginspace) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:35:32 GMT

"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin
"To Room Nineteen" by Doris Lessing
"Parker's Back," "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," or "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
"A Worn Path," "The Wide Net," "Why I Live at the P.O." and others by Eudora Welty
"The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield
"Flowering Judas"and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine...

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feeds@yuku.com (Driv) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:04:11 GMT

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:57:44 GMT

"Gapo" by Lualhati Bautista, a local author

Which is a local book about a U.S. marine stationed in Subic Naval Base (now Subic Bay Free Zone) which is a fall in love a local woman in a city of Olongapo, which 80 miles Northwest of Manila.

I bought the pocket book when I was in college and I used it on my Filipino 1 subject as the summary of all of the chapters on that book.

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (pseudopoganandra) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:38:49 GMT

I am in love with David Sedaris. I just found out that listening to him read his stories on tape is even better then reading them.

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (CUBic Zirconiyum) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:20:35 GMT

QJaz wrote:
"Story of an Hour" - I can't remember the author.

Kate Chopin. I almost listed this one, but I like the concept of the story more than I liked the writing itself.

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (memyselfandi) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:46:09 GMT

Sign me up for the Flannery O'Connor fan club.

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (QJaz) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:53:25 GMT

"Recitatif" by Toni Morrison.

Anything by Flannery O'Connor, particularly "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Revelation."

"Haunted" is a collection of creepy short stories by Joyce Carol Oates and is highly recommended.

"Story of an Hour" - I can't remember the author.

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feeds@yuku.com (Podunk Town) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:41:05 GMT

"A Way You'll Never Be" - Hemingway

"The Diamond As Big As The Ritz" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Sanctuary" - Nella Larsen

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feeds@yuku.com (Shag) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:09:56 GMT

Susan Minot is a good modern short story writer. She's done some great novel work, too.

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feeds@yuku.com (The Electric Witch) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:00:57 GMT

Mandie wrote:
Do you guys read short stories in online literary magazines ever? I'm just curious. I sort of feel like the short story market is dead. It's sad though, because I love to read the publications each month. (And also sad because a lot of my own shorts have been published in literary magazines.)

I used to have subscriptions to "Story" and "The Paris...

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feeds@yuku.com (growsonwalls) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:56:28 GMT

Anton Chekov's "The Darling," Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever," and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."

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feeds@yuku.com (ptcruisn56) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:33:11 GMT

Flannery O'Connor...all of them.

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feeds@yuku.com (Mister Yuck) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:17:06 GMT

"Ransom of Red Chief"

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feeds@yuku.com (the lovely rabbit) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:16:03 GMT

A Perfect Day For Bananafish, by JD Salinger.

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, by Joyce Carol Oates.

Jesus Is Waiting, by Amy Hempel.

I Sing The Body Electric!, by Ray Bradbury.

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, by Kurt Vonnegut.

That's all you need, to start off with.

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feeds@yuku.com (The Electric Witch) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:59:57 GMT

There is a little story by Neil Jordan called "Night in Tunisia"that is as beautifully crafted as anything ever written. It's the title story of a collection of his that I have. Also anything by Truman Capote, Katherine Mansfield (esp. "The Dolls' House") Flannery O'Conner, Alice Munro ("Something I've Been Meaning to tell You" is amazing) or Chekov (Lady with Lap Dog is one of my favourites of his) And "The Dead" by James Joyce....

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feeds@yuku.com (E Moch) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:51:28 GMT

"The Lottery" was one of the first short stories I read, and I loved it.

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feeds@yuku.com (FREE FREE X BILKIS) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:09:28 GMT

borges and vonnegut are top notch

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (SonOfAbraxas) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:06:55 GMT

shiza! I already said 9 Stories. I win.

But seriously, <3 JD with all my heart, but some of those stories I will never ever understand.

I need to read them all again, now that I think about it.

Re: What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (kinghouseplant) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:07:42 GMT

"Parson's Pleasure", Roald Dahl
or anything else by him

What are some of your favoritest Short Stories?

feeds@yuku.com (catspasms) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:08:40 GMT

We've discussed people's favorite books before, but I've never heard a discussion of short stories. What are some have stumbled across and that stuck with you/you found you loved?

I've always been a fan of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" since I first came across it in like 7th grade--not just because of the idea, but also because of how it was written and how the tension builds. That and I was a weird kid. But I think my favoritest has to be a story I...