Favorite Short Stories.
Due to Franny and Zooey being this month's book the book club assigned, I'm reminded how much I love J.D. Salinger. I'll admit, I have had little exposure to short stories, but, of what I've read, Salinger's Perfect Day For Banana Fish rates high. I absolutely adore it, quite frankly. If you haven't read it you should give it read.
Now, what're your favorite short stories?
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
Pastoralia by George Saunders
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
anything by Jorge Luis Borges
I had to read 'The Lottery' in high school and I really loved that story.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
I don't read many short stories of my own accord though, I just don't like the brevity.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
I think my favourite is Hempels the Harvest. I love unreliable narrators.
"What cha readin' fer??"
Ohh, I love short stories! 
*Grabs Stephen King book* All That You Love Will Be Carried Away. LOVE that one, gah. <3
I want more than them
That's the difference
'babycakes' by neil gaiman. also, isn't thrush just yeast infection of the mouth?
Oh yeah - Snow, glass, apples by Gaiman is also a favourite of mine.
"What cha readin' fer??"
Araby - James Joyce
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/araby.html
To Build a Fire - Jack London
http://www.americanliterature.com/London/SS/ToBuildaFire.html
A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf
http://www.readprint.com/work-1524/Virginia-Woolf
The Great Carbuncle - Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.readprint.com/work-748/Nathaniel-Hawthorne
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Also: Anything by Hemingway is good to amazing and anything by Guy De Maupassant is decent to great.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Dostoevsky
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
i had to read those 2 in my critical writing class and they were the only stories i liked from the entire class. i wrote a long paper on the oates story and we watched the movie that was based on it.
there was another story too, i think it's called 'a&p' or something. that one was good too, it was about some kid who quit his job at a grocery store because his boss reprimanded these girls in bikinis who came into the store.
i like this one, a lot
there was another story too, i think it's called 'a&p' or something. that one was good too, it was about some kid who quit his job at a grocery store because his boss reprimanded these girls in bikinis who came into the store.
Ha, yeah, I've read A&P as well. Yup, those I read for a class in college. I wanna say it was for creative writing too, but Im not 100% sure. I actually still have that text book, which is full of a ton of short stories.
Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op short stories are just as good as his novels. Recommended collection : The big knockover.
there was another story too, i think it's called 'a&p' or something. that one was good too, it was about some kid who quit his job at a grocery store because his boss reprimanded these girls in bikinis who came into the store.
Ha, yeah, I've read A&P as well. Yup, those I read for a class in college. I wanna say it was for creative writing too, but Im not 100% sure. I actually still have that text book, which is full of a ton of short stories.
maybe it's the same book. it had all of 'hamlet' in it, which i hated.
I feel ashamed...I think the only one I've read here is Hempel's The Harvest.
My absolute favorite short was written by a good friend of mine, so obviously no one would have heard of it. It's called Grandma's Gang, and it is a semi-fictional account of interactions with Barry the Janitor.
Also, I loved Obsolete from Haunted, as well as Guts. I realize that's likely as typical as saying Fight Club's your favorite film.
I have a .pdf of Salinger's Nine Stories, I'll have to break into that pretty soon.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I loved the stories in Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock and Cold Snap by Thom Jones.
Thom Jones is good stuff.
Oh oh, I also like the short stories on this site.
I want more than them
That's the difference
which site?
I would guess this one?
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts
do not miss 'Suffer the Fool' by Will Christopher Baer 
made me very happy when i noticed that hiding in the shorts section here awhile back.
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/suffer-the-fool
Read Ecstacy by Irvine Welsh, I think it's three short stories and they are great.
A glass of wine will mend the soul, a bottle will give salvation.
Nathan's very right.
Bert, I read that story, I enjoyed it very much.
I want more than them
That's the difference
Bert, I read that story, I enjoyed it very much.
which one, imke?
'Suffer the Fool' by Will Christopher Baer!
I want more than them
That's the difference
that makes me smile, that you read and enjoyed it, imke
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "The Lottery" are classics.
Just read two from the Hugo Awards Nomination list:
26 Monkeys - http://www.kijjohnson.com/26_monkeys.htm
"Article of Faith" - Mike Resnick (Baen's Universe Oct 2008)
Unfortunately, that's also about the extent of my short story exposure, unless "Haunted" counts. Must get into them more...
¬ The Magician's Secret
The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar by Bret Harte
Clay by George A. Romero
Perfect Day for Banana Fish by J.D. Salinger
ALL TIME FAVORITE:
They by Rudyard Kipling
i frickin love short stories. people should write a million more. you have the opportunity to make every single word necessary and perfect. post cards. awesome.
first to come to mind is mephisto in onyx, by harlan ellison.
then deception of the thrush, by will christopher baer.
both amazing.