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'A good man is hard to find' by the immortal Flannery O'Connor. Her wonderful ear, the grotesque creations and the sense of place are all fucking killer! V.S. Pritchett is another often overlooked quality act in the short form.
Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been,
Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanished scene;
As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be,
So, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
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Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut has to be my favorite even if it is heavily influenced by Orwell's "1984".
"Violence, she solved everything"
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| Posts: 1243 | Location: Nowhere | Registered: 31 July 2006 | |
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I love Vonnegut's short stories (and novels), even if I can't name the short stories by name.
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Go Liminal State Bobcats!
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| Posts: 1071 | Location: Back, after an eternal hiatus | Registered: 24 April 2007 | |
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Anything by Bradbury. This one called "Tremors" by I forget who. Oh wait, that was me. A short story of mine is being published in an anthology of short stories by young Americans. YAY! 
if you have a chanse, leave some flowers on algernon's grave in the bak yard.
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Well congrats.
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| Posts: 1071 | Location: Back, after an eternal hiatus | Registered: 24 April 2007 | |
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'The Most Dangerous Game.'
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No list of contemporary short stories and their writers can be complete without including The "Shell Collector" by Anthony Doerr.
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I know that this is a dated thread, but I run a website that has more than 2,000 short stories and I am trying to organize them into smaller collections. My goal is to make the better stories more accessible to encourage folks that aren't big fans of the genre to give them a try. So if anyone would like to suggest some of their favorite short stories (I am currently organizing them by author), I would appreciate the input. Thanks. |
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quote: Originally posted by SexyPandaBearGod:
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut has to be my favorite even if it is heavily influenced by Orwell's "1984".
I love Harrison Bergeron! And pretty much anything else Vonnegut put out. Also "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favorites. |
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Has anyone read Lahiri Jhumpa's Interpreter of Maladies? I thought the entire book was amazing, but my favourite stories inside were A Temporary Matter and the Interpreter of Maladies.
Sleeping is giving in...so lift those heavy eyelids!
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I love short stories! Ray Bradbury is a particular favourite of mine. Also, Hemingway and Salinger.
I recently read a collection by a new (I think!) Irish author, Billy O'Callaghan. The book is called 'In Exile' and contains some of the most impressive stories I've read in a long time. Can't seem to find much in the way of reviews about it but it is available on Amazon and is well worth checking out...
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