I don't read many short stories, although I have been doing it more often since my slump. I'm reading some Neil Geiman short stories now and I've liked them all My favorites are The Veldt by Ray Bradbury (I even wrote a short story in the eighth grade inspired by it. I ran across is recently and it wasn't too bad!), and The Juant and The Long Walk by Stephen King.
I don't read many short stories, although I have been doing it more often since my slump. I'm reading some Neil Geiman short stories now and I've liked them all My favorites are The Veldt by Ray Bradbury (I even wrote a short story in the eighth grade inspired by it. I ran across is recently and it wasn't too bad!), and The Juant and The Long Walk by Stephen King.
I thought of The Lottery first, then The Veldt.
Apparently I like my short stories disturbing.
Me too! The Jaunt and The Long Walk still haunt me.
There's one that I don't remember the name of, but the gist was that a kid is driving and hits and kills someone. Very graphic. Then you find out it's just a simulation for his driving test, and did he want his license now. He says, "Yes" though he is very shaken. The administrator looks at him and says, "Well if you can drive after that, clearly you're a psycho murderer and need to be locked up." And they drag the kid away, his feet falling into grooves of the countless others that have done this before.
There's one that I don't remember the name of, but the gist was that a kid is driving and hits and kills someone. Very graphic. Then you find out it's just a simulation for his driving test, and did he want his license now. He says, "Yes" though he is very shaken. The administrator looks at him and says, "Well if you can drive after that, clearly you're a psycho murderer and need to be locked up." And they drag the kid away, his feet falling into grooves of the countless others that have done this before.
Two by Stephen King that have always stuck with me: Survivor Type (part of Skeleton Crew) and The Long Walk, which was more of a novella than a short story. It was written under Richard Bachman and later part of the Bachman books. I always thought that it must have been the inspiration for The Hunger Games.
Both of them were so haunting that I read them at least 25-30 years ago originally and never forgot either of them.
I just read Survivor Type online and omg omg omg :-|
There's one that I don't remember the name of, but the gist was that a kid is driving and hits and kills someone. Very graphic. Then you find out it's just a simulation for his driving test, and did he want his license now. He says, "Yes" though he is very shaken. The administrator looks at him and says, "Well if you can drive after that, clearly you're a psycho murderer and need to be locked up." And they drag the kid away, his feet falling into grooves of the countless others that have done this before.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain
Two by Stephen King that have always stuck with me: Survivor Type (part of Skeleton Crew) and The Long Walk, which was more of a novella than a short story. It was written under Richard Bachman and later part of the Bachman books. I always thought that it must have been the inspiration for The Hunger Games.
Both of them were so haunting that I read them at least 25-30 years ago originally and never forgot either of them.
I just read Survivor Type online and omg omg omg
Lady fingers.
(I haven't read that one in at least 15 years and most of it is still so graphic in my brain.)
Post by ChillyMcFreeze on Apr 28, 2016 10:11:25 GMT -5
I feel like I haven't read enough short stories. I love A Rose for Emily and A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. My middle school art teacher would play short story tapes for us while we worked, and she LOVED Ray Bradbury,
Joyce Carol Oates has some really great ones. I just picked up Dear Husband and particularly enjoyed "Death by Fitness Center" and "A Princeton Idyll (great voices)."