I am not a patient man and I can barely read novels—for this reason and because I like the austere and economic perfection of short-stories is that I would like some recommendations—also because I want to know what you all are into. My last readings were Thrawn Janet by Stevenson, The Duel by Wilkie Collins and The Courting of Dinah Shadd by Kipling—I like Wells prose and themes though.
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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Borges.
Everything that rises must converge by Flannery O’connor,
The island of Doctor Death and other stories by Gene Wolfe
At night all blood is black
‘The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories’ was enjoyable.
Borges stories are mostly short. The Wall and the Books comes to mind.
I LOVE short stories. I think (good ones) are harder to write.
SF, Fantasy, horror, mystery I’ll read them all and have mostly.
Too many to list but anthologies are great. I bought Dozois Years Best SF every year, have them all. And the Best of the Bests. Just search for that kind of thing, whatever genre you prefer, there are plenty around.
And I found James Herriot books to read like shorts. As he writes about particular cases, even though they are novels, it read like shorts.
Actual shorts, his Cat stories, and Dog stories.
how about pulp fiction or scifi short stories? some of these aforementioned short stories go quite deep and i find sometimes they are conundrums!