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Posts: 97 (06/21/08 11:05 AM) |
Anything by Maupassant and Bradbury. The one that really sticks out for me, which I thought was Maupassant, is actually by Marcel Ayme (had to read it in a
college french class) Le Passe-Muraille (Englishe translation - The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls)
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Posts: 5011 (06/21/08 11:08 AM) Registered User |
The Three Little Pigs
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CUBic Zirconiyum |
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Posts: 6056 (06/21/08 12:45 PM) Registered User |
"In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" by Amy Hemple is one. It gets better with a few re-readings. The last couple paragraphs are pretty effing
sad.
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Posts: 9033 (06/21/08 12:52 PM) |
"Across the Bridge" by Mavis Gallant always comes to mind, because I was prepared to hate it after a few pages, but it completely sucked me in by the
end of it.
And almost all Lewis Nordan stories are fantastic. "Music of the Swamp" is fucking brilliant top to bottom. |
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Posts: 1190 (06/21/08 2:05 PM) MESS member |
As many others have mentioned, O. Henry is always good (a couple of my favorites are "Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Connell's "Most Dangerous Game" was another good one, as was "Lenigan vs the ants", both favorites of my youth. Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" is a classic. One that I haven't seen mentioned yet is Kurt Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House" |
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Posts: 7641 (06/22/08 1:01 AM) I need a life |
I really need to read Kurt Vonnegut's short stories, because I've only read "Harrison Bergeron" (sp?) which I thoroughly enjoyed and I also
love his novels.
What other stories of his are good besides that and "Welcome to the Monkey House"? |
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Posts: 5260 (06/22/08 2:40 AM) Still OT Forum Dominator
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I don't know how I forgot Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear. Knocks my socks off every time.
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Posts: 6686 (06/22/08 2:47 AM) Registered User |
The Man from Nantucket
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Posts: 4420 (06/22/08 10:12 AM) BB Forum Moderator |
YAY!
All four (well, really only 3 of them) in Stephen King's Different Seasons are great!great!great! And all three of the good ones were made into movies. That stupid last one is just stupid, though. And YAY for The Lottery. I remember reading that in Middle School and I was really freaked out. lol Any love for JD Salinger weird short stories? He's such a weirdo, but I love him very very much. 9 Stories <3 |
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Posts: 3114 (06/22/08 10:17 AM) Registered User |
"The Telltale Heart"
"The Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" Almost any of King's short stories. "To Build a Fire" I always liked "The Lottery", and iirc, King used that story in "Storm of the Century", as an homage. |
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Mandie |
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Posts: 976 (06/22/08 1:37 PM) Registered User |
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.)
Some of my favorite short story authors are: Margaret Atwood (Rape Fantasies is my fave. It's in DANCING GIRLS collection I think.) Joyce Carol Oate's story about the girl who falls in love with her kidnapper, I can't remember the title Mary Gaitskill, I just love her descriptions David Foster Wallace too And then I have tons of favorites from literary magazines but it would be too annoying to find the links or titles. |
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Posts: 1135 (06/22/08 1:57 PM) |
Seeing 'The Most Dangerous Game' and 'The Lottery' reminds me of 'Lamb to the Slaughter' by Roald Dahl which is a favorite of mine.
If you enjoy short stories, you should pick up '9 Stories' by JD Salinger... it's fantastic! Every story is a miniature work of art. |
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Posts: 4426 (06/22/08 2:07 PM) Registered user |
"Parson's Pleasure", Roald Dahl
or anything else by him |
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Posts: 4429 (06/22/08 3:06 PM) BB Forum Moderator |
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. |
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FREE FREE X BILKIS |
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Posts: 389 (06/22/08 3:09 PM) |
borges and vonnegut are top notch
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Posts: 811 (06/22/08 3:51 PM) |
"The Lottery" was one of the first short stories I read, and I loved it.
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Posts: 498 (06/22/08 3:59 PM) |
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. I'm a huge fan of the short story and I think it's a shame that it is a bit of a dying art.
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Posts: 48 (06/22/08 4:16 PM) |
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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Posts: 3376 (06/22/08 4:17 PM) Registered User |
"Ransom of Red Chief"
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Posts: 4580 (06/22/08 4:33 PM) Registered user |
Flannery O'Connor...all of them.
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