Favorite Short Stories?

I really love:

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
Sound of Thunder - Ray Bradbury
The Lady or the Tiger? - Frank Stockton
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Leguin
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (More of a novella)
There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
Bartelby, The Scrivener - Herman Melville
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe (and others)
The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs
Man from the South - Roald Dahl

Among others... what about everyone else?

You've named a few of mine already. But some of my others are:

"Evidence" - Isaac Asimov
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" - Harlan Ellison
"The Exiles" - Ray Bradbury
"Kaleidoscope" - Ray Bradbury
"Born of Man and Woman" - Richard Matheson
"The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" - Stephen King
"As Others See Us" - Christopher L. Bennett

Ooh yeah, I forgot about "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," that should be on my list as well. It's veeeery creepy. I don't think I've read the Bordertown stories. They sound interesting though ^^

Thanks! I will definitely check it out!^^

oh, man.

"Popular Mechanics" by Raymond Carver. hands down.

i read this years ago and it has stuck with me ever since.

WONDERFUL TOPIC <3 Much love to it!

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs, A Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe, and Lamb to Slaughter by Roald Dahl. I loved these as a child and I still love them now, they're my absolute favourites! They're not the most cheeriest of short stories, that I know I liked them as a little boy ahaha but hey, I like dark stories.

Edit: allkdakdakd. I see you have Lady or the Tiger... what... you have such great tastes (all of you do T ___ T) *explodes*

Ooh, Raymond Carver is good. I haven't read "Popular Mechanics" (*adds to list along with "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"*) but I think "Little Things" is amaaaazing.

I think I also have a penchant for dark stories.

"Popular Mechanics" and "Little Things" are actually the same story!! it got retitled later on, i'm not sure why. but i agree, it is pretty amazing.

Oh, haha. I had noooo idea. That's awesome! Yay!

I forgot to add "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. It really is a classic, with the creepy man hunting and all that.

Anything by Jorge Luis Borges is phenomenal. I'm very fond of "The Garden of the Forking Path" and "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." I also love Chekhov. "The Little Trilogy" is great - three interconnected short stories ("The Man in a Case," "Gooseberries," and "About Love").

But if you like Doctor Who, Borges is the author to try.

I am obsessive about Doctor Who. I've really got to check out Borges^^

Forever Overhead, by David Foster Wallace. I love to be immersed in the writing style and words of the author.

The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami is like a mixed bag of short stories. Some are good, some are... not so good. I think The Silence is quite astonishingly moving.

My favourite short story is "October in the Chair" by Neil Gaiman, out of his collection Fragile Things.

I also really like Padrika Tarrant's work - her collection Broken Things is excellent.

And "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway.

I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called, but I think it might be from Fragile Things or at least be by Neil Gaiman. Anyway, there was this short story that I (think) is his in which there is some couple and when they get married, they receive this book and the book is about them and I think it might write itself as their life goes on perfectly, but everything in the book shows there life going HORRIBLY and then yeah it goes on and there is a twist in the end. Well, regardless of who wrote it, it was very interesting...

The one I can think of at the moment is "The Smoky Glass Goblet" by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.