Short stories

[Ostrinski]

They are perfect for people with short attention spans. Who are your favorite short stories written by?

[NewLeft]

Louis Aragon.. He mostly wrote short poems.

[MarxSchmarx]

Edgar Allen Poe simply cannot be matched.

For a contemporary author, the collection "Stay Awake" by Dan Chaon is amazing. "The Bees" in particular I found incredibly powerful.

[Ostrinski]

Poe's short stories are the only ones that I have read. I got into him when I was 13 or 14.

[Ostrinski]

What do you all think of Jack London's short stories? They've the complete collection of them on Amazon for like a buck for the kindle edition.

[Book O'Dead]

They are perfect for people with short attention spans. Who are your favorite short stories written by?

One of my all-time favorite short stories is "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas", by Ursula K. Le Guin. Another is "Prize Tomatoes" by (I can't remember). I love short story compilations and anthologies, likely for the reason you state: short attention span.

[Book O'Dead]

The correct title is "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" (sorry!) and the full text can be had here:
http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Favourite short story is 'Guts' by Chuck Palahnuik

My consumption of short stories is limited tho, namely one Chuck Palahnuik compilation and one by Poppy Z Brite.

Favourite shortest story ever, the Hemingway '6 word novel' -

"For sale; baby's shoes, never used"

[ed miliband]

Hemingway

[dodger]

Guy de MAUPASSANT

"Diary of a madman".....amongst,many, many short stories.

Thread has galvanized me. I ordered a Kindle

[Tenka]

Is it a cliché to mention H.P. Lovecraft in this thread?
There's also Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows' (great classic: http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/blackwood/stories/willows.htm), but maybe that's also a cliché. I can think of others but not now.

[Bronco]

Raymond Carver

[Ose]

I love short stories. I'm a big fan of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Mann.

[Rooster]

I'm a big fan of the short stories by Philip K. Dick. Some of them are really short, like a paragraph and usually a piss take on other sci-fi trends.

[Dr Doom]

What do you all think of Jack London's short stories? They've the complete collection of them on Amazon for like a buck for the kindle edition.

you can read them all online here as well : http://www.jacklondons.net/writings/ShortStories/index.html

samuel becketts short stories are really good imo

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Acts of Worship is a good collection by Yukio Mishima that also serves as a good introduction to his other work.

[x359594]

Hemingway

There's The Complete Short Stories that has new material found in the Hemingway archives and the several shorter collections such as Winner Take Nothing, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Men Without Women, The First 49 Stories and the Fifth Column (the collected stories up to 1940,) and The Nick Adams Stories.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

This story by Ambrose Bierce. (http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/992/)

Dark as hell, but good.

[Hermes]

Art in the War Zone, by Pat Murphy

It's very good, it was recommended to me years ago by an English teacher and I really enjoyed it.

[smellincoffee]

I absolutely love Isaac Asimov's Black Widower mysteries. I collect his short-story collections, looking especially for those with commentary.

[Art Vandelay]

I'm a big fan of the short stories by Philip K. Dick. Some of them are really short, like a paragraph and usually a piss take on other sci-fi trends.

I am going to have to track down some of his short stories, I never knew he wrote any. Such an amazing writer, such a sad life.

[Rooster]

I am going to have to track down some of his short stories, I never knew he wrote any. Such an amazing writer, such a sad life.

There's several collections. I have two, I think. One called We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, which I think is an early collection and Minority Report which is a later collection.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Hemingway

Some of his stuff is exceptionally good and amazing, but a lot of it, to me, seems overrated.

[x359594]

There's several collections...

Dick's collected short fiction has been published in five volumes, each with a different title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Philip_K._Dick

At least half of them are terrific, and the rest are very good.