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Good short stories available online

Started by Icehaven, October 05, 2017, 10:14:07 AM

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Icehaven

Thread for any decent short stories but they have to be available online, cheers!


selectivememory

I read Pastoralia by George Saunders recently. The rest of the short story collection of the same name was quite disappointing, but this one is great.

http://we--do--not--sow.tumblr.com/post/19698698381/pastoralia-by-george-saunders

Sebastian Cobb

Herman Melville (1819–1891).  Bartleby, the Scrivener.
http://www.bartleby.com/129/

Also, have a toe-curlingly cringeworthy one called When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth.
https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html

KennyMonster

I downloaded a pdf of Ray Bradbury's The Pedestrian (precursor for Fahrenheit 451) for my iPad (it is available on somer versions of his Golden Apples Of The Sun compilation but not all versions and I was finding it hard to find the right version).

Seems to have been part of some school's exam question or something.

Hopefully it can be googled if you're interested.


Porter Dimi

The New Yorker is a treasure trove of great short stories. A select few:

"Amundsen" by Alice Munro
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/27/amundsen

"In the South" by Salman Rushdie
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/18/in-the-south

"Escape from Spiderhead" by George Saunders
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/escape-from-spiderhead

"As You Would Have Told It to Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died" by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/25/as-you-would-have-told-it-to-me

"Madame Lazarus" by Maile Meloy
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/madame-lazarus

Delete your cache/cookies if you hit the paywall

Not a short story per se; but definitely one of the most tantalyzing and afffecting bits of literature Ive enjoyed over the last year...

https://www.reddit.com/r/9M9H9E9/wiki/narrative

You may not have heard of it; but about a year ago someone started leaving posts in seemingly arbirtrary threads all over reddit, more often than not posts that had nothing to do with the topics of the threads in question...at first just seeming like a load of drug-addled bizarre nonsense, slowly intertwining narratives unfolded and once accumulated together the posts revealed a wildly imaginative sci fi yarn that is also one of (if not the most) creepiest story Ive ever read. Told in this fresh medium and written beautifully (theres a few posts about the nature of addiction that are brutally honest and contains some fantastic passages... "If you are horribly burned in a fire, you can take drugs to relieve the pain. If you shatter your spine, you can take drugs to relieve the pain. If you are addicted to drugs and your life has turned to utter and total shit, you can take drugs to relieve the pain.
And that's how the trap works.")

It covers all kinds of ideas and all the components add up to one big whole that make it an amazing amazing read. The link above is the posts chronologically ordered together. I'd recommend anyone give it a go.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/05/9mother9horse9eyes9-the-mysterious-tale-terrifying-reddit






Someone posted this (Eric The Pie by Graham Masterson in another thread a while back - haunting stuff.