― duane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Omar, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sam, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Melody, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dale A., Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Q: is it ok to use 'dig' in written conv. if you would not in spoken?
― maryann, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ess Kay, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― toby, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave M., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― etc, Saturday, 12 June 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 12 June 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― etc, Saturday, 12 June 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
most of the good things in the world = nonsense that should be left behind with our high school days. it's all downhill from there, i've decided.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 12 June 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 12 June 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
― etc, Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 June 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― mandee, Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
short stories in six words:http://blog.wired.com/sixwords/
most seem to have a Twilight Zone quality:
I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss...?- Neil Gaiman
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…" - Steven Meretzky
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/25/2214254&threshold=3)
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time- Alan Moore
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
another one i love who hasn't been mentioned: yu hua, who is kind of like modern china's answer to borges...but way more gruesome.
i think JCO has written exactly one good short story, "where are you going, where have you been?" i read that in highschool and thought it was so perfect that i started trying to track down everything she did (of COURSE i barely scratched the surface, but i read a ton of her short fiction anyways) and nothing even came close. lots of crap about boring academics having affairs with each other. also, her story in the new yorker a couple weeks ago was pointlessly depressing and horrible.
― bell labs (bell_labs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― bell labs (bell_labs), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
2. I love continually coming across the bits of 2001 ILX where people thought it was quite cool and mature to be bored with that "high-school" Salinger. If I were to do a top ten for short stories there's every chance "The Laughing Man" would show up in it.
3. I think we could probably count this is as an independently functional short story: "The Aquatic Uncle," from Calvino's Cosmicomics, would definitely make that top 10.
4. Also Capote's "A Christmas Memory."
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/mayonnaise.html
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't read it yet, but apparently it's a thinly fictionalized retelling a real-life event from earlier this year. Too thinly, according to some people.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Roald Dahl's collection of war-related short stories 'Over To You' is quite simply incredible.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
With bloody hands, I say good-bye.- Frank Miller
― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Gustave Flaubert - "A Simple Heart"Anton Chekhov - "The Kiss"F. Scott Fitzgerald - "Babylon Revisited"John Cheever - "The World of Apples"Katherine Anne Porter - "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"
My favorite living short story writer is Alice Munro, even if many of her later stories blur in the memory; she's really been writing a serialized novel about the lives of young women growing up in western Canada, surviving thanks to myth and memory.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Hemingway is not really my thing, but if every short story ever written by everyone else was crap, he would pretty much singlehandedly redeem the genre. damn him. wait, maybe that's how I can excuse my weird mental block about short stories, claiming that they're inherently macho somehow.
xpost: "Babylon Revisited"! Love! I had to teach that story recently and failed miserably, because all I wanted to do was revel in how much I love it. my students were pretty bored, I think.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 27 October 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
There's a story I love that I cannot find, remembering neither author nor title (which is pathetic, seeing as I actually heard the author read it). A woman babysists for her sister and her sister's husband while they are staying at a resort. There's a teenage girl from the previous marriage also with them, and the building caretaker also does "deep tissue massage". Sounds daft, but it captures a mood very well.
― patita (patita), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
My name here is a reference to his novel, "The Dead Father"
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I just read Cheever's "World of Apples" over lunch -- turned out to have the collected stories in my bag -- and thanks, Alfred!
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link