Commented - shortstories

The Egg, by Andy Weir (galactanet.com)

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!

[Meta] What I hope this community can be for you.

Curated Story Recommendations: I’ve been sharing some of my favorite short stories here. Hoping this becomes a go-to spot for everyone to find a quality read each day—whether you’re on the go or winding down before bed. I hope these picks make your daily reads more enjoyable....

The Sisters [James Joyce] [Modernist, Avant Garde]

Three nights in succession I had found myself in Great Britain-street at that hour, as if by Providence. Three nights also I had raised my eyes to that lighted square of window and speculated. I seemed to understand that it would occur at night. But in spite of the Providence that had led my feet, and in spite of the reverent...

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (www.newyorker.com)

“The Gorge” by Umberto Eco (www.newyorker.com)

LOOOOVE Umberto Eco

"The Skylight Room" | The Four Million | O. Henry | (etc.usf.edu)

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Araby by James Joyce (www.plato-philosophy.org)

HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut (www.tnellen.com)

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. I’m a first time writer and don’t know where to go or what to do. Appreciate any advice!

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

“Borges and I” 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...

You Perfect, Broken Thing by C.L Clark (www.uncannymagazine.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 it’s nice to hear em talk about it.

You Perfect, Broken Thing - by C.L. Clark (www.uncannymagazine.com)

Sour Milk Girls by Erin Roberts (clarkesworldmagazine.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: Barlow’s contributions are in brackets.]...

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu’on le touche il resonne. -De Beranger....

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin (ia903104.us.archive.org)

“Borges and I” by Jorge Luis Borges [Analysis] (literature.cafe)

The narrative hinges on Borges’s 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...