Your favourite short story recommendation

timl · 01-08-2016, 03:25 PM

Arthur Morrison - "Tales of Mean Streets"

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40569

gritty tales of late 19th century London's seedier side

kilgoretrout · 01-08-2016, 07:59 PM

Anything in Jorge Luis Borge's "Labyrinths":

https://english-mechs2.wikispaces.co...Labyrinths.pdf

jamison20000e · 01-08-2016, 09:34 PM

Classmates and I read this one in high school:
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury:
https://2engom.wikispaces.com/file/v...tasks+bklt.pdf :::

frankbell · 01-08-2016, 09:37 PM

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I love that one One of my favorite short story writers was H. P. Lovecraft.

I think that the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and At the Mountains of Madness are my two favorite Lovecraft stories.

After you read enough Lovecraft, there's sort of a sameness to many of the plots, but no writer I've read is better at creating atmosphere.

And then, of course, there is The Canon.

smallpond · 01-08-2016, 10:23 PM

"Turnabout" by Faulkner is a WW II story. It reads like a simple story, but to give you an idea of it's complexity the title has 3 different meanings. It refers to 1. the high speed maneuvers of torpedo boats, 2. a pilot and seaman each experiencing the others wartime missions and 3. the pilot's change of beliefs in the course of the story.

Hungry ghost · 01-08-2016, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by kilgoretrout

Anything in Jorge Luis Borge's "Labyrinths":

https://english-mechs2.wikispaces.co...Labyrinths.pdf

Agreed! I was going to suggest The Garden of Forking Paths, but most of his other stories are amazing as well: Death and Compass, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The Immortal are some of my favorites. It's amazing how much he conveys with so succinct sentences; it adds to the mystery of his tales.

Also, Edgar Allan Poe and Julio Cortazar.

DavidMcCann · 01-09-2016, 11:50 AM

I'd select

The ones who walk away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Sense of humor, by Damon Runyon
The unrest-cure, by Saki
Casting the rune,s by M. R. James
The ladies of Grace Adieu, by Susanna Clarke
The moon moth, by Jack Vance
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
In the teeth of the evidence, by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Ipswich Phial, by Randall Garrett
Basil Seal rides again, by Evelyn Waugh

Jeebizz · 01-09-2016, 01:44 PM

I'm into creepypastas, and I got a few favorite narrators I subscribe to on Youtube, which some have narrated 'The Holder' series.

RandomTroll · 01-10-2016, 04:41 PM

'The Dead' by James Joyce

dugan · 01-11-2016, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by fogpipe

Wow. That was great

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"Bears Discover Fire" (the only other Terry Bissson I've read) is even better. Unfortunately it's not free.

POSIX · 01-12-2016, 10:49 AM

I like "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's 6000 words though, so...depends on your definition of a short story.