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In pair with the many good books threads. Here's a few in no particular order:

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams
Stuart Dybek - Pet Milk
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Stephen King - The Little Sisters of Eluria
Brett Harte - The Oucasts of Poker Flat
Richard Connell - The Most Dangerous Game
Dorothy Allison - River of Names
Margaret Attwood - Happy Endings
Andrea Barrett - The Litoral Zone
Donald Barthelme - The School
J.D. Sallinger - A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Richard Bausch - The Man who Knew Belle Starr
Charles Baxter - Gryphon
Ann Beattie - Janus
Junot Diaz - Fiesta, 1980
Andre Dubus - The Fat Girl
Pam Houston - How to Talk to a Hunter
Ha Jin - The Woman from New York
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent
William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
O Henry - The Gift of the Magi

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Originally posted by tribu In pair with the many good books threads. Here's a few in no particular order: Stephen King - The Little Sisters of Eluria

Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden.

more of a novella, than a short; but still a great read.

SK rocks!

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Originally posted by tubularbills Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden. more of a novella, than a short; but still a great read. SK rocks!

The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think.

As for me, there's a collection by Leo Tolstoy "Divine and Human" that's very good. I also love Fitzgerald, so I'll have to check out the suggestion in the first post.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think. As for me, there's a collection by Leo Tolstoy "Divine and Human" that's very good. I also love Fitzgerald, so I'll have to check out the suggestion in the first post.

Winter Dreams

My favorite short story ever. So, I lied when I said no particular order.

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Originally posted by tribu Winter Dreams My favorite short story ever. So, I lied when I said no particular order.

Tender is the Night is my favorite novel of his. I'll def. check out that collection though.

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Originally posted by tribu Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent

*The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
*Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
*The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

i remember reading The Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily for a class in HS and getting the chills from them. good stories nonetheless. even now, i still get creeped out thinking about those stories. i guess it must have left a pretty darn big impression on me.

if you liked Jhumpa Lahiri's The Third and Final Continent, you should check out her book The Interpreter of Maladies... it's a collection of her short stories including the aforementioned The Third and Final Continent. i just finished reading that book and really enjoyed it and i'm waiting for my copy of The Namesake to arrive.

Three Little Pigs has always been a favorite of mine.

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Originally posted by BLuEOcEaN420 *The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka *Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne *The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe *The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe...

I never really liked A Rose for Emily but The Yellow Wallpaper is exeptional. I take that back. A Rose for Emily is good too, but it's been required reading for me so many times that I've forgotten how good it can be.

I actually have Interpreter but Ive haven't had a chance to go through it.

And of course, most Poe stories are classics.


I find it hard to believe that no one else here can suggest good short stories, but no one ever responds to my posts seriously

I really enjoy Stephen Kings short stories, well...almost all his stuff really.

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The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think.

Shawshank Redemption is, but The Green Mile was a "serial" novel. Originally released over time as 6 short novels. So call it what you want lol.

Interesting read also....a short story that caused quite a stir among the interweb:

http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm

go to his main news page and he has a long response due to the way it was received.

There's a publishing company out there that finds works by prolific authors that are from 80-120 pages (novellas I guess) and publishes them. I've bought a couple books from them now, including Hadji Murat by Tolstoy (one of my favorites), Arctic Winter by Forster, Ruslan and Lyudmila by Pushkin, etc.

Hesperus Press I think it's called. Anyway, so far everything I've read of theirs has been quality. Amazon carries a lot of their titles for around 10 bucks a book.

"Short Story" by J.A. Brauch

Once upon a time, they lived happily ever after. The End

incredible substance... this should be required reading for people everywhere. True American classic.

isaac asimov "nightfall"
arthur c clarke "the sentinel"
harlan ellison "i have no mouth and i must scream"

Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find".

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

Still can't believe it was written in 1909... in some way, it applies very well to today

Definitely on "The Most Dangerous Game", "Gift of the Magi", and just about ANY Poe.

How about "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Isaac Asimov? Sick and hysterical.

Penthouse Forums have pretty good short stories

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