Favorite short stories

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  1. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Raymond Chandler
    Ernest Hemingway
    Kafka
    Stefan Zweig
    Ted Chiang for comfort

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Boccaccio
      Chaucer
      Plato's dialogues
      1001 Nights

      >OP asks for stories
      >name authors

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >muh hemingway
      >old turd in a boat

  2. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Young Goodman Brown

  3. 8 months ago
    Jon Kolner

    Boccaccio
    Chaucer
    Plato's dialogues
    1001 Nights

  4. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hemmingway

  5. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is my favorite single short story. I hold it in as much regard as any great novel or poem

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      My favorite from Borges is the Circular Ruins.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        That one, too, is great. He has written more than one short story deserving of being mentioned in this thread

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I like that Tlon has the coin appearing in the real world at the end. Sort of like a “was it real the whole time?” TZ ep or something.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      my favourite too; alonside Cortázar story about eating bunnies in Paris (don't remember the name but it's in Bestiario)

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        The House of Asterion by Borges
        Under the Jaguar Sun by Calvino
        The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemmingway
        The silence of the Sirens by Kafka
        A Simple Heart by Flaubert
        Sensini by Bolaño

        Letter to a Young lady in Paris, also a great story

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      My favorite from Borges is the Circular Ruins.

      where my Theologianschads at

  6. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/kino-haruki-murakami
    Best story about suicidal ideation that I've read.

  7. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Three-Ten to Yuma by Leonard
    >The Burning Plain by Rulfo
    >A Perfect Day for Banana Fish by Salinger
    >Barn Burning by Faulkner
    >The Killers by Hemingway
    >The Return by Bolaño

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The Burning Plain
      Never realized Rulfo's entire output could be placed on a single novel. Wish he wrote more stuff.

  8. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Happiest I've Ever Been
    Snowing in Greenwich Village
    In Football Season
    The Doctors Wife
    A Madman

  9. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Civilwarland in bad decline by Saunders.
    The whole collection

  10. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Averroes's Search by Borges
    The Overcoat by Gogol
    Patriotism by Mishima

  11. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Rocking-Horse Winner

  12. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really like Etgar Keret. Some free samples on his website.
    https://www.etgarkeret.com/section/stories

    I recently read Suzanne Delage by Gene Wolfe, and Nightfall by Asimov.
    Nightfall is a good sci-fi short story. It's the one that made Asimov a name. Suzanne Delage is a story where nothing much seems to happen, but if you look beneath the surface it's horrifying. Which is good for people who like being horrified.
    And then I also read Conversation Piece, 1945 by Nabokov. Which was great.

  13. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anything by Chekhov really
    >Enemies
    >Neighbours
    >The Grasshopper
    >Chameleon
    >The Kiss
    >The Death of the Office Clerk

    For pure entertainment, some of O. Henry
    >The Ransom of Red Chief
    >The Gift of the Magi
    >Makes the Whole World Go Kin
    >Springtime a la carté
    >The Last Leaf

    A few others that come to my mind
    >The Cask of Amontillado by Poe
    >Winter Dreams by the Great Gatsby
    >The Law of Life and To Build a Fire by Jack London
    >An Occurence at Owl Creek by Ambrose Pierce

  14. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone who could help with finding the name of a short story I read somewhere. The plot is about discarded things on an attic or a junk heap and they tell stories about what they did and why they ended up there and the last one to speak is a wooden horse telling about the many adventures young boys would take him on in their imaginations. Any clues?

    Otherwise, I really like The tower of the Elephant by Howard, To kill a child by Stig Dagerman.

  15. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >The Vanishing American, Charles Beaumont
    >The Colour Out of Space and/or The Dreams in the Witch >House by H.P. Lovecraft
    >Anything by Ray Bradbury, in particular his October Country collection. I'm particularly fond of Uncle Einar, The Wind, and The Scythe, but they're all pretty solid.
    >Washington Irving's The Adventure of the German Student.

  16. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The man who would be king
    Dray wara yow dee
    To build a fire
    Wakefield (by Hawthorne)
    The gold-bug/Metzengerstein
    The wendigo

  17. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Counterparts - Joyce
    An Affair of Honor - Nabokov
    Roger Malvin's Burial - Hawthorne

  18. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Turgenev- The Living Relic

    George Mavrodes- The Salvation of Zachary Baumkletterer

    Ryan Harty- Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down

    Checkov- The Bet; In Exile

    Flannery O'Connor

    Joyce- The Dead

    Hemingway- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

    Tolkien- Leaf by Niggle

    Andre Dubus- A Father's Story

    Morrison- Recitatif

    Robert Aickman- Ringing the Changes

    Flowers for Algernon
    Harrison Bergeron
    The Lady, or the Tiger?
    The Most Dangerous Game
    I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

  19. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    A Shower of Gold
    City Life
    The Indian Uprising
    Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning
    Views of My Father Weeping

  20. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Lottery
    The Interlopers
    Sredni Vashtar
    Death and the Compass

  21. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The district doctor, Tugeniev
    The Kiss, Chekhov
    Prisioner of Caucasus, Tolstoy
    A gentle creature, Dostoevsky
    Good Old Neon, Wallace
    To build a fire, London
    Enoch Soames, Beerbohm
    Chess, Zweig
    Tlon Uqbar and Orbis Tertius, Borges
    En memória de Paulina, Bioy Casares
    La isla a mediodía, Cortazar
    Vagabundo en Francia y Bélgica, Bolano
    O voo da madrugada, Sant'anna

  22. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The feminist - Tony Tulathimutte
    https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fiction-drama/the-feminist/

  23. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Hawaii, Vampire arc, and Rockstar handler stories in The Informers, Ellis. Pancakes Breece is better than all the authors that praise him publicly. Can't go wrong with Poe. Bukowski was an inconsistent poet, but he mastered the short story.

  24. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    mike ma

  25. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    My favorite short story of all time is Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges. I can't really put into words why I like it, I don't even really understand it at all. But I love it.

  26. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Leaf by Niggle

  27. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's up

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