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Wow, we asked you guys to come up with some of your favorite short stories, and boy did you deliver! We here at Aliteration decided to compile a list of all the works/comments you guys gave us so everyone out there can get some reading done! 
“A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
“Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius”, by Borges.
“A Perfect Day for Banana Fish” by JD Salinger
Anything by Karen Russell (note not a story name literally anything Karen Russell has written, but hey maybe she can write a story called anything, someone talk to her about that)
I agree with Ernest Hemingway. He can write a spankin’ story.
“Run, Mourner, Run” - Randall Kenan
Almost anything by Vonnegut or Bradbury, and most by Dick.
“Pet Milk” by Stuart Dybek
“Barn Burning” by Wililam Faulkner
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman Perkins
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
“The Library of Babel”- Borges (wrinkled my mind)
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, and
“The Dead” by James Joyce
“An Arrangement of Lights” by Nicole Krauss. 
“Style” by Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried 
“A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat
“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
“The Bath” by Raymond Carver
“The Sniper” Liam O’Flaherty
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
“The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”  by Harlan Ellison
Got a great one that we missed? Feel free to let us know, we’ll edit the list so that yours appears! Happy Reading!
 

Wow, we asked you guys to come up with some of your favorite short stories, and boy did you deliver! We here at Aliteration decided to compile a list of all the works/comments you guys gave us so everyone out there can get some reading done! 

  • “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
  • “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius”, by Borges.
  • “A Perfect Day for Banana Fish” by JD Salinger
  • Anything by Karen Russell (note not a story name literally anything Karen Russell has written, but hey maybe she can write a story called anything, someone talk to her about that)
  • I agree with Ernest Hemingway. He can write a spankin’ story.
  • “Run, Mourner, Run” - Randall Kenan
  • Almost anything by Vonnegut or Bradbury, and most by Dick.
  • “Pet Milk” by Stuart Dybek
  • “Barn Burning” by Wililam Faulkner
  • “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman Perkins
  • “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
  • “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
  • “The Library of Babel”- Borges (wrinkled my mind)
  • “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 
  • “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, and
  • “The Dead” by James Joyce
  • “An Arrangement of Lights” by Nicole Krauss.
  • “Style” by Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried 
  • “A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat
  • “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
  • “The Bath” by Raymond Carver
  • “The Sniper” Liam O’Flaherty
  • “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
  • “The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft
  • “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”  by Harlan Ellison

Got a great one that we missed? Feel free to let us know, we’ll edit the list so that yours appears! Happy Reading!

 

According to some May is National Short Story Month and we here at Aliteration couldn’t be more excited! Seriously, we love everything about short stories and we’re absolutely unapologetic about that fact. As we should be right? With works like George Saunders’ Tenth of December and Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove coming out with rave reviews, some people have speculated that this very well might be not just a month or two of the short story but The  Year of the Short Story.
To celebrate this month we thought we’d do one of those good ol’ fashion link posts to various posts to get your brain all situated around these wonderful short stories:
Flavorwire’s Ten Wonderful Short Stories to Read for Free Online
Ann Kingman’s Project Short Story  cataloging the short stories she’s read this year.
American Literature’s Twenty Great American Short Stories
Steven Millhauser’s short but sweet essayThe Ambition of the Short Story 
Goodread’s list of The Best Short Stories of All Time (Pulled from general ratings)
Paul Vidich’s 2011 made yet still interesting essay at The Millions, Publish or Perish: the Short Story
Last but not least, wikipedia’s complete list of short story authors to get you going in the right direction.
We asked some of our lovely staff members to suggest their favorite short story (stories) too, and this is what they said:Amy: “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor has always always always been my favorite short story” 
Cole: “Reeling for the Empire” By Karen Russell, “North Country” by Roxane Gay, and “The Sex Lives of African Girl” by Taiye Selasi are all must reads when it comes to more modern fiction, but I’m a sucker for “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Hemingway and “The Swimmer” by Cheever when it comes to generic american-lit-required-reading short stories. 

Jen:   Roddy Doyle’s, “The Painting”. It made me wanna just throw my pen up in the air and quit

Of course that’s not all, we want to hear from you guys too. What’s your favorite short story? What short story really knocks your socks off, past or present, every time you read it?

According to some May is National Short Story Month and we here at Aliteration couldn’t be more excited! Seriously, we love everything about short stories and we’re absolutely unapologetic about that fact. As we should be right? With works like George Saunders’ Tenth of December and Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove coming out with rave reviews, some people have speculated that this very well might be not just a month or two of the short story but The  Year of the Short Story.

To celebrate this month we thought we’d do one of those good ol’ fashion link posts to various posts to get your brain all situated around these wonderful short stories:

We asked some of our lovely staff members to suggest their favorite short story (stories) too, and this is what they said:

Amy: “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor has always always always been my favorite short story” 

Cole: “Reeling for the Empire” By Karen Russell, “North Country” by Roxane Gay, and “The Sex Lives of African Girl” by Taiye Selasi are all must reads when it comes to more modern fiction, but I’m a sucker for “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Hemingway and “The Swimmer” by Cheever when it comes to generic american-lit-required-reading short stories. 

Jen:   Roddy Doyle’s, “The Painting”. It made me wanna just throw my pen up in the air and quit

Of course that’s not all, we want to hear from you guys too. What’s your favorite short story? What short story really knocks your socks off, past or present, every time you read it?

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