s/o favorite short story

[Anonymous]

What is your favorite short story? Mine is The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Read it in Middle School and it stuck with me.

[Anonymous]

Not favorites. Anything from Chekhov.

[Anonymous]

Raymond Carver’s “Why Don’t You Dance?”

[Anonymous]

I like the collection of Hemingway stories entitled “The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories.”

I’m kind of meh on his novels but think he was a short form master.

[Anonymous]

I love O.Henry’s short stories. The absolute favorite are probably “The Last Leaf” and “Gifts of the Magi” but he had so many other great ones.

[Anonymous]

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang

[Anonymous]

The Manned Missiles by Vonnegut

[Anonymous]

Tessa Hadley's After the Funeral collection which is new short stories, also the first one in Bad Dreams and other stories is excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your favorite short story? Mine is The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Read it in Middle School and it stuck with me.

Same! But I read it in HS. We were given this to read when there was a lot of fighting among classmates and teasing.

[Anonymous]

Life on the refrigerator door.
Which is either a really long short story or a very short book, at 220 pages. Published in 2007.
It is about a mom and her teenage daughter and the notes they leave each other over the course of a year.
Here is a link to what the book is about:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Refrigerator-Door-Alice-Kuipers/dp/0002006790/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Life on the refrigerator door.
Which is either a really long short story or a very short book, at 220 pages. Published in 2007.
It is about a mom and her teenage daughter and the notes they leave each other over the course of a year.
Here is a link to what the book is about:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Refrigerator-Door-Alice-Kuipers/dp/0002006790/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Thank you for the rec! I just downloaded it - free with Kindle Unlimited. 😊

[Anonymous]

Jocelyn N. Johnson's My Monticello is a phenomenal book of short stories. The title story, "My Monticello" is particularly insightful and moving.

[Anonymous]

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang

I also love “There will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury” and another one by him “The Small Assassin”

Others I love:

“The Dark Snow” by Brendan Dubois

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Related to Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury, I was googling it the other day and found this ( related to the poem by Sara Teasdale)

“In 2008, the post-apocalyptic game Fallout 3, which takes place in the irradiated remnants of Washington, D.C., featured a robot in a house in Georgetown which, upon entering a command in a terminal in the house, would hover in the bedroom of the occupant's children and recite the poem for which this story is named.[11]”


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)

[Anonymous]

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

Dorothy Parker's short stories were fun when I was a bit of a party girl but I might not relate to them now.

Miranda July wrote a book where she went to people's houses to buy what they advertised in the back of the penny saver and those were awesome.