s/o favorite short story

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In the Reign of Harad IV by Steven Milhauser
Going for a Beer by Robert Coover

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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)

Loved the Yellow Wallpaper. And also "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell. These two have really stayed with me.
Edith Wharton and Daphne duMaurier also have books of short stories. I think duMauriers are the more compelling.

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Steven King is a short story master!

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander.

Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce.

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

I memorized and performed this story in high school forensics. It's haunting. That whole collection -- The Martian Chronicles -- is amazing. Arguably his best work.

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I like Haruki Murakami's "The Kidney Shaped Stone that Moves Every Day".

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/fiction/the-kidney-shaped-stone-that-moves-every-day

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Anything by Roald Dahl

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Can't remember the name of the book, but it was a collection of SS by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.

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Also loved Yellow Wallpaper, plus anything by Jhumpa Lahiri!

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I love Charles by Shirley Jackson.

I've recently started comprehensively reading Sherlock Holmes, after realizing I had only really read a couple of things. His short stories are great - very compact. I don't know that i have a favorite, though the one with Irene Adler has certainly been made a lot of over the years.

I've also been reading Agatha Christie more comprehensively - love the Hercule Poirot stories, all of them.

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Sea Oak, George Saunders
almost anything by Aimee Bender - Willful Creatures is my favorite collection of hers

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Anonymous wrote:A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.

His stories are so good. I think people don't know that Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella of his, and it is soooo dark compared to the film; brilliant, really.

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All of this "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Lottery" stuff makes me wonder if y'all have read any stories since high school, lol.

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The Telltale Heart and pretty much anything else by Poe