You Perfect, Broken Thing by C.L Clark (www.uncannymagazine.com)
The Egg, by Andy Weir (galactanet.com)
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (www.newyorker.com)
Sci-Fi Short Stories with Mary Robinette Kowal and Brandon Sanderson | Five Favorites (youtu.be)
Some of these have already been posted here in this community. Bit itās nice to hear em talk about it.
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (fyp.uoregon.edu)
Maybe my favourite short story ever. Def top 5. The story on which the incredible Dennis Vellenuve movie Arrival is based. Which is also my favorite movie. Basically I couldnt recommend this story enough!
āThe Gorgeā by Umberto Eco (www.newyorker.com)
LOOOOVE Umberto Eco
You Perfect, Broken Thing - by C.L. Clark (www.uncannymagazine.com)
"The Skylight Room" | The Four Million | O. Henry | (etc.usf.edu)
HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut (www.tnellen.com)
Sour Milk Girls by Erin Roberts (clarkesworldmagazine.com)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Exhalation by Ted Chiang (ia801500.us.archive.org)
Love Ted Chiang
A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf (americanliterature.com)
THE BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER by Ernest Hemingway (samkoenen.com)
Collapsing Cosmoses By R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft
[Note: Barlowās contributions are in brackets.]...
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin (ia903104.us.archive.org)
āBorges and Iā by Jorge Luis Borges (www.amherstlecture.org)
The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical...
āBorges and Iā by Jorge Luis Borges [Analysis] (literature.cafe)
The narrative hinges on Borgesās self-perception as a writer, underscoring the difference between the private self that cannot recognize his persona or public mask as a famous storyteller. The former insists that he has nothing to do with the task of writing, that only Borges alone imagines the stories and completes the work...
Yzur by Leopoldo Lugones (www.erbzine.com)
A man attempts to teach a chimpanzee how to speak like a human. Related to Garnerās studies on ape and monkey language....
I wanna submit a short story into some competetion or for publication. Where and how do I do this?
Are there any competetions yall are aware of. Iām a first time writer and donāt know where to go or what to do. Appreciate any advice!
āChance the Cat,ā by David Means (www.newyorker.com)
I heard lemmy likes cats
The Star by H.G.Wells [Sci-Fi]
Above were the lava, hot gases and ash, and below the seething floods and the whole earth swayed and rumbled with the earthquake....
The Library of Babel [Borges] (youtu.be)
[Fantasy] One of the most important short stories ever imo. The best of borges, using fiction to philosophically analyse the ideas of infinity and reality....
Work, Death and Sickness by Leo Tolstoy (americanliterature.com)
A parable by one of the greatest writers ever
When the Yogurt Took Over by John Scalzi [Sci-fi] (whatever.scalzi.com)
Another sci-fi short for you. This one is by John Scalzi and it is a great one in my opinion. Pretty sure there is a YouTube video someone made for this so if thatās your thing check it out. Hope you enjoy!
