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My goal is to read one short story before bed every night, i don't think it's the worst goal imaginable.

Let's make a list, shall we?

2 B R 0 2 B - Kurt Vonnegut

>> No.1204162

Lonelyache by Harlan Ellison
Grail by Harlan Ellison
Big Sam Was My Friend by Harlan Ellison
World of Myth by Harlan Ellison

>> No.1204175

Pretty much the only think Neil Gaiman's good at.

Snow, Glass, Apples by him.

>> No.1204195

The Landlady - Roald Dahl

>> No.1204221

/lit/ short story roulette

http://www.mediafire.com/?j5jmi0p6o3pao2s

>> No.1204701

>>1204175

You must not have read Sandman or American Gods.

>> No.1206294

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

>> No.1206447

>>1204701
Sandman is for kids and American Gods was overlong, boring, and contrived

>> No.1206457

Sherlock Holmes
Dubliners

>> No.1206464

>>1206447
>only thing he's good at
>for kids

Why can't he be good at writing for kids too?

>> No.1206466

THE RED LAUGH

SURE IT'S ABOUT 100 PAGES, BUT YOU CAN DO IT!

>> No.1206482

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>> No.1206661

>>1204221
Are are the stories in here of good quality? I see some really good authors(Salinger, Chekhov) and I see some Koontz and King >_>

>> No.1206665

>>1206661
KING WROTE GOOD SHORT STORIES.

>> No.1206677

War No. 81-Q by Cordwainer Smith

>> No.1206693

>>1206677
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7288468-81q

IS IT THIS?

>> No.1206697

i like that goal, op

>> No.1206787

>>1206447

Sandman was for kids? Aparently you read a different version then mine, because in the book I had there were cults, rape, and a serial killer convention.

I mean, surely you didn't just call it a kid's book because it's a comic and you considered it unworthy of reading for your super intellect. That's definitely not what happened...

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1206815

Read Raymond Carver. He is a master of the short story.

>> No.1206863

>>1206693
I can't tell. I'm not a chinaman.

>> No.1206958

any short story by Robert Sheckley.

>> No.1206975

Macario by B. Traven
The Nose by Gogol
A perfect day for a bananafish by JD Salinger
A country doctor by Kafka
the secret miracle by Jorge Luis Borges

>> No.1206998

They are made out of meat - Terry Bisson

Freaking awesome.

>> No.1207135

Nobody has introduced Chris Adrian yet? WTF.

A Better Angel is a great collection of works. He sculpts stories; there isn't a single word misplaced