Your favorite short story

Some more:

The House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges
Great New from the Mainland by Ernest Hemingway
Ivy Day in the Commitee Room by James Joyce
A Little Cloud by James Joyce
Archangel by John Updike
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by David Foster Wallace

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Also:

The Open Window by Saki
La mère Sauvage by Guy de Maupassant
The Author of the Acacia Seeds by Ursula K. Le Guin TEXT

I'm writing all these down. I will hunt them. And read them mercilessly.

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Originally Posted by shortstoryfan

I'm writing all these down. I will hunt them. And read them mercilessly.

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:lol: It's great to know that somebody appretiates the magic of brevity.

I will go with 1 Big two hearted river prts 1 and 2 Ernest Hemingway
2 A good man is hard to find Flannery O' Connor
3 Indian Camp Ernest Hemingway
4 Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles Edmund Wilson

Oh... and Ambrose Bierce:

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

http://fiction.eserver.org/short/occ...owl_creek.html

Chickamauga

http://www.classicreader.com/book/1167/1/

Maupassant- The Horla

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-st...oks/Horl.shtml

Donald Barthleme- Me and Miss Mandible:

http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/bar...-mandible.html

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown:

http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/158/

The Artist of the Beautiful:

http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/124/

Theophile Gautier-

Clarimonde

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22661/22661-8.txt

J.L. Borges-

The Library of Babel

http://www.analitica.com/BITBLIO/jjb...rary_babel.asp

The Aleph

http://www.phinnweb.org/links/litera...ges/aleph.html

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So, what is your favorite short story? For myself, I like Hawthorne very much, especially Rappaccini's Daughter. Anyone else enjoy reading short stories?

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Rappaccini's daughter has always been one of my favorate short stories. I wondered each time I read the story why Beatrice could not have enjoyed felicity with her lover the way most people would do on earth. How I wish she could!

I love Katherine Mansfield's "The Voyage." I have no idea why, I suppose it just engages me.

For a less famous writer, Sara Maitland is well worth a look, "A book of spells" has some amazing stories in it.

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Originally Posted by virginiawang

Rappaccini's daughter has always been one of my favorate short stories. I wondered each time I read the story why Beatrice could not have enjoyed felicity with her lover the way most people would do on earth. How I wish she could!

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She can't? I thought that Rappaccini wanted to turn the guy(I can't remember his name!) into something like her, so that they would reproduce little poisonous people. I was so sad when she died though, as revenge against her father. It wasn't fair.:bawling:
Hawthorne is so incredibly imaginative.

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck.

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway.

Undoubtedly Oscar Wilde's Short stories stay with you all your life.

tbarnes, this Murakami story was indeed very poignant.

Apart from 'Shredni Vashtar', by Saki, I would also say one of Oscar Wilde's short stories: 'The Selfish Giant'. This story touches me, deeply, though I am not religious, particularly when I read it aloud.

of ocurse I love the famous 'Innocent Erendira and her heartless Grandmother' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ummm 'Eyes of a blue dog'


ummm ..... 'Toba Tek Singh' by Saddat Hasan Manto and many more


I love reading Short Stories and thanks to this thread!..... finding loads of new things to read!

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Originally Posted by Anjali Purohit

Undoubtedly Oscar Wilde's Short stories stay with you all your life.

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so true

I liked 100% girl - the story is so damn cute :D. But, I also enjoyed some of Lovecraft's short stories.