Advice regarding short stories

[inesmartinmca]

Hello everyone,

Soon I will be teaching a storytelling class at Freshman college level and one of the assignments will be to write a short story. I am planning on covering narrative techniques in class such as: red herring, macGuffin, in media res, framing device, Chekhov´s gun, story within a story, flashback, flashforward, etc...I wonder if there is an anthology of short stories i which this kind of narrative techniques(among others) are applied. It would be nice if it came with some analysis of how these techniques work or don´t work in the stories I would appreciate your help in this matter.

[ennison]

Red herring will be easy. They'll do that by accident! Chekhov's gun needs them to know where they are going but if they can't plan it or prefer to just go with a start they can always go back and put that in during editing. There used to be a short story collection called Points of View which had examples of some of these things. It may not now be in print