short shorts
The stories, not the fashion.
What's your favorite? I could use a good quick read.
In high school I went through a Raymond Carver phase and found a bunch of old recordings of him. Good stuff. Recently, I've been taken with the supper short Sudden Fiction International anthology.
A few stories I don't mind reading a dozen times:
"Blackberries" by Leslie Norris
"The Elephant" by Slawomir Mrozek
most anything by Alice Munro
and of course classics like "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
posted by Jessica @ 8:15 AM
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A collection - Dubliners by James Joyce
It's not in print, but I highly reccomend The Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl. You could probablyThese ain't children's stories, although they are pretty fantastic.
I believe you would like it.
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My favorite: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I like Raymond Carver, too.
Annie Proulx's short stories are good. I like them better than her novels.
I'm not sure if it's available in the US, but Alistair MacLeod's book of short stories (The Last Salt Gift of Blood) is worth a read, as well. . . .
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