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.

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)

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

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

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. 😊

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 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.

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

The Manned Missiles by Vonnegut

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

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.

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.

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

Not favorites. Anything from Chekhov.

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