Louis Aragon.. He mostly wrote short poems.
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They are perfect for people with short attention spans. Who are your favorite short stories written by?
Louis Aragon.. He mostly wrote short poems.
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.
百花齐放
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la luz
de un Rojo Amanecer
anuncia ya
la vida que vendrá.
-Quilapayun
Poe's short stories are the only ones that I have read. I got into him when I was 13 or 14.
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.
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.
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
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"
Hemingway
Until now, the left has only managed capital in various ways; the point, however, is to destroy it.
Guy de MAUPASSANT
"Diary of a madman".....amongst,many, many short stories.
Thread has galvanized me. I ordered a Kindle
Night has one thousand eyes
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/miskato...es/willows.htm), but maybe that's also a cliché. I can think of others but not now.
Raymond Carver
I love short stories. I'm a big fan of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Mann.
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.
you can read them all online here as well : http://www.jacklondons.net/writings/...ies/index.html
samuel becketts short stories are really good imo
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Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
Acts of Worship is a good collection by Yukio Mishima that also serves as a good introduction to his other work.
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.
This story by Ambrose Bierce.
Dark as hell, but good.
"The exploited are not carriers of any positive project, be it even the classless society (which all too closely resembles the productive set up). Capital is their only community. They can only escape by destroying everything that makes them exploited...Capitalism has not created the conditions of its overcoming in communism-the famous bourgeoisie forging the arms of its own extinction-but of a world of horrors." -At Daggers Drawn
"Our strategy is therefore the following: to establish and maintain a series of centers of desertion, or poles of secession, of rallying points. For runaways. For those who leave. A series of places where we can escape from the influence of a civilization that is headed for the abyss." -Tiqqun, Call
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.
I absolutely love Isaac Asimov's Black Widower mysteries. I collect his short-story collections, looking especially for those with commentary.
"John Henry said to his captain, 'A man ain't nothin' but a man - -but before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, I'd die with a hammer in my hand." - Woody Guthrie
