SHORT STORIES

Bite-sized Escapism – Reading Short Stories with Your Book Club

The Colorado Book Club Resource has a growing collection of short story anthologies that reach far and wide to take your book club around the universe.

The best short story books and collections for 2024 - Pan Macmillan

From the gothic horror of Edgar Allan Poe to the literary brilliance of Dima Alzayat, here is our edit of the best short story books and collections.

Short Stories & Essays - Erika Krouse

Short Stories: · “The Pole of Cold”—death and love in the coldest town on earth. Appeared in One Story, March 25, 2015 · “The Husbands”—dating husbands… · “ ...

The American No by Rupert Everett review – blackly comic short ...

Rupert Everett prefaces his suite of short stories with an account of the showbiz ruse that provides the title, a grim little routine whereby ...

Should new writers start with short stories before writing a novel?

Your most pressing and perplexing questions about writing answered here by Gotham teacher Brandi Reissenweber.

The Best American Short Stories | Heidi Pitlor

Stories published by online journals and magazines should be sent to [email protected]. Stories must be received by December 31st of the ...

A not-so-short defense of the short story - The Georgetown Voice

The core element of a short story is brevity. It must avoid convoluted plots and unnecessary descriptions, focusing only on the essentials to bring a story ...

Short Stories | Robert Louis Stevenson

Dick Naseby falls in love with a young woman, Esther Von Tromp. Unfortunately, her father is Peter Von Tromp, jokingly called “The Admiral”.

Finding Published Short Stories - Research Methods for English and ...

Finding Where a Short Story has been Published. It is sometimes possible to locate a specific short story in a collection of stories, if that collection has ...

LibGuides: Open Source and Open Access Literature: Short Stories

Free digital access to literature. Most of these are classic writings in novels, short stories, essays, reference, plays, and poetry with digital textbooks, ...

Why You Aren't Reading Short Stories, and Why You Should

I'm going to tell you why you should be reading more short stories. But first, I'm going to tell you why you're not reading them.

Short story collections for older children - Book Trust

We love short stories! Short stories can be a great way of engaging reluctant readers, or and even introducing confident readers to more advanced stories.

How to Write a Short Story: 9 Proven Steps - Jerry Jenkins

Step 1. Read as Many Great Short Stories as You Can Find ... Read hundreds of them—especially the classics. You learn this genre by familiarizing yourself with ...

Index to Short Fiction | Willa Cather Archive

The Cather Archive is building a collection of electronic transcriptions and page images from the first periodical publications of Cather's short fiction.

short stories | PBS News

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks is crossing over into the world of literature with a new collection of short stories that explore how people seek connections with ...

Short story

Literary genre

A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.

Of Mice and Men

Novella by John Steinbeck

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Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression.

5 Centimeters per Second

2007 film

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5 Centimeters per Second is a 2007 Japanese romantic drama animated film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. It theatrically premiered on 3 March 2007.

Aesop's Fables

Book by Aesop

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.

The Awakening

Novel by Kate Chopin

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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.

The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka

Novel by Franz Kafka

The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels, this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971. It was reprinted in 1995 with an introduction by John Updike.