The Short Stories Thread.

[SectorVector]

Am sure many of us like short stories.
If you do, please post the ones that you read and liked.

Please mention, story name, author and if possible provide a HTTP link to the story.

Upto 5 stories per post should be fine I suppose, just to keep it "short" :-)
Short essays (eg., A City Night Piece - Oliver Goldsmith) would also be welcome (i think).

Here's two to start with, I read the last week.

1) Professor Panini - Matthew Grigg
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-storie...i724.shtml

2) Soliloquies in the Bath - Frederick Karinthy
http://50watts.com/filter/karinthy/Solil...n-the-Bath

[SectorVector]

All the talk of Anarchy in the capital (Delhi) reminded me of this story from way back.

1) The Background - Saki
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/clo...pter6.html

2) Major Gagarin goes round the world - G. F. Lamb
Couldn't find it online.

3) The Sniper - Liam O'Flaherty
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/sniper.html

[joew771]

Amy Hempel - The Harvest

[SectorVector]

^ That's a tough one joe. . Will try reading more Amy Hempel.
Download: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (epub)
Amazon

[stormium]

i enjoyed reading these back in the late 90's: the bastard operator from hell

http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php

each series is a short set of stories.

[thekeyfile]

Hey, just found this thread and thought I would contribute.

I found this short story a while back and it really blew me away. It had a really strange writing style and was extremely emotional! I don't believe that the author has ever had anything published in print, I looked everywhere.

It's called Things by Noah Bailey, here's a link: http://www.beforeitgotcool.com/?s=things+noah+bailey

[SectorVector]

The Adopted Son by Guy de Maupassant.
http://www.classicreader.com/book/920/1/
Life

A Young Turkish Catastrophe by H. H. Munro (Saki)
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/770/
or as we call it back home now, "The Power of 49" :-)

[Arzoo]

Never saw this [very good] thread before but then I'm a fliipper when it comes to web-pages. I like to think Salinger wrote some fine short stories.

Salinger - A Perfect Day for Bananafish

http://ae-lib.org.ua/salinger/Texts/N1-B...ish-en.htm

Salinger - For Esme, with Love and Squalor

and that exquisite story with a matchless "Yeats" title :

Schwartz - In dreams begin responsibilities

https://lingualeo.com/es/jungle/delmore-...06#/page/1

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Bunin wrote some ravishing short pieces. Since the original language is Russian, I'm heavily biased towards certain translations. Because - some people translate well, they do not cut out portions they don't understand, are honest, etc. Being honest is by far the most important.

So in that vein, here's some :

Ivan Bunin - Raven 
Ivan Bunin - Chang's Dreams
Ivan Bunin - In Paris



and a light hearted piece:

Bunin - The Hunchback's Affair

What delights me in the above stories, are the memorable descriptions, condensed imagery and the special "colored hearing". Hettlinger translations are good.

Here's the torrent :

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/1178403...(13_books)


In terms of flimsy and whimsical little pieces, Walser is astonishing.

Robert Walser - Griefen Lake
Walser - A Curious City

Almost all of the pieces in A Schoolboy's Diary and other stories are great fun if only we don't read and run, rather dream a little bit.

Here's the torrent : 

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/9720484..._(5_books)

[Arzoo]

Here's another, to get started. It's a well known short story - a bit too much anthologized. It's good - but things can be better.

Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden of Forking Paths

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/9830622...(17_books)

It is propelled by good ideas - but the format and the container vessel may seem outdated.

[contrail]

1) Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
https://americanliterature.com/author/ma...ras-county

2) Jack London - To Build a Fire
https://americanliterature.com/author/ja...ild-a-fire