thequickandthedead
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Preferably one that can be legally read online although i'm open to buying short story collections. Recently read Isaac Asimov's The Last Question and hoping for a similar length story.
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Recommend me a Short Story
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I came here to suggest Araby, but this is also good.
I swear i was going to throw The Last Question at you.
Since you're going to be smothered in classics, i'll go for some byproducts of the internet:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/783175/tg/d.png
Since you're going to be smothered in classics, i'll go for some byproducts of the internet:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/783175/tg/d.png
thequickandthedead
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Is that what the game is based on?
Hilarious tale about wasting a scammers time lmao
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=862651
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=862651
striferser
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http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_St...arties/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties_(Text)
From the author Neil Gaiman sites
From the author Neil Gaiman sites
Shrike_Priest
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Anything by Paolo Bacigalupi. http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Paolo_Bacigalupi.html
Particularly, Yellow Card Man, The Calorie Man (these are in the same universe) and Pocketful of Dharma.
Particularly, Yellow Card Man, The Calorie Man (these are in the same universe) and Pocketful of Dharma.
Massive Nights
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While we're on Neil Gaiman, this is The Price, one of his best short stories. Although I can't seem to find the text legally online, here's the author reading it on his Last.fm page.
http://www.last.fm/music/Neil+Gaiman/_/The+Price
EDIT: Found the text http://www.bitchwick.com/amacker/bean/price.html
http://www.last.fm/music/Neil+Gaiman/_/The+Price
EDIT: Found the text http://www.bitchwick.com/amacker/bean/price.html
I love Kitties
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I am Legend. SOOO much better than the movie!
thesoapster
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Labombadog
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This right here. I just re-read this and still haunts me. Great short story. Another is "Tell Tale Heart " by Edgar Allen Poe
MrAstronaut
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Bradbury's Kaleidoscope is pretty good
Ha, great! I came in here specifically to recommend Asimov!
Well, read Nine Tomorrows. It has The Last Question in it, but the others are great too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Tomorrows
Well, read Nine Tomorrows. It has The Last Question in it, but the others are great too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Tomorrows
This. It was written by Harlan Ellison and is a fucking classic.
CharminUltra
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The Whisperer in Darkness by HP Lovecraft
Or if you want something a little bit more literary and less pulpy:
Teddy by JD Salinger
(you've read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, right? I know it's required reading in most if not all US schools, but I don't want to assume)
Or if you want something a little bit more literary and less pulpy:
Teddy by JD Salinger
(you've read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, right? I know it's required reading in most if not all US schools, but I don't want to assume)
Incandenza
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This is what I was going to post. Read this.
From DFW I also like "Octet" and "Suicide as a Sort of Present" (which is a reeeeal brutal one)
Stephen King has some real entertaining ones too. "Survivor Type" is a great one.
bennywhatever
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"Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King.
thequickandthedead
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Still worth reading having watched the movie?
yes yes yes
try "what is remembered"
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/02/19/what-is-remembered
It's been many years for me, but if I remember correctly, the movie is nearly spot on. I think there were a few minor details here and there that were different, but I don't think it was much.
Skeleton Crew, Night Shift, Full Dark-No Stars are all good collections of King's short stories.
super-famicom
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A great compilation: The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami.
dragonlife
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The Yellow Wallpaper
I read it in high school and it has stuck with me ever since. When I first read it I was floored by how much could be done in... well, a short story, and it's the one that made me appreciate them more. I ate up the imagery and the psychologically unsound nature of it right up.
If I recall, it was part of a lesson on female writers back when they weren't so common. This particular author had some issues as well.
I actually haven't read it since high school, but now that I found that linked PDF, maybe I'll read it again later.
Anyway, read it! It's not very long and if you like psychological fucked-upness, you'll like this.
I read it in high school and it has stuck with me ever since. When I first read it I was floored by how much could be done in... well, a short story, and it's the one that made me appreciate them more. I ate up the imagery and the psychologically unsound nature of it right up.
If I recall, it was part of a lesson on female writers back when they weren't so common. This particular author had some issues as well.
I actually haven't read it since high school, but now that I found that linked PDF, maybe I'll read it again later.
Anyway, read it! It's not very long and if you like psychological fucked-upness, you'll like this.
SolidSnakesMyStepDad
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Totally agree.
Also there is a one act play called "The Zoo Story" which is really good. It is technically not a short story but it's the same length.
Wow, another Flannery OConnor fan. Right on.
Oh hell yeah! Read that my freshman year of college. I agree, it's flat out bizarre.
HORRORSHØW
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i love you, man.
definitely read omelas. and as a pointless aside, le guin thought of the the title by seeing salem o(regon) in her rearview mirror.
i also suggest reading baudlaire's paris spleen if you're into prose poetry.
the diaries of adam and eve by mark twain is also fantastic, even if it''s a tad too long to label it a short story.
lastly, check out katie williams's bone hinge, a short story about conjoined twins and love.
Really anything from Joyce is a good pick.
HORRORSHØW
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i need a skeleton key to decipher his prose.
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