I don't usually enjoy short stories as a reader and would have no idea how to write one, because, and I know this will sound silly, they're too short. I like more time to connect to the fictional world and characters. My favorite thing as a reader and my dream of developing as a writer is something like Sharpe or Aubrey/Maturin--20 or so novels about a good character sounds just about right to me.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Susan W. - Jan 16, 2008 12:26:31 pm PST #3709 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 12:27:45 pm PST #3710 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Bartleby!
Liese S. - Jan 16, 2008 12:27:52 pm PST #3711 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, yeah, Gibson has some great ones. "The Belonging Kind," "Fragments of a Hologram Rose."
-t - Jan 16, 2008 12:28:33 pm PST #3712 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, yeah, "Lamb to the Slaughter".
I wish it was easier to track down short stories based on content.
Cashmere - Jan 16, 2008 12:29:59 pm PST #3713 of 10001
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Oh, yeah, Gibson has some great ones. "The Belonging Kind," "Fragments of a Hologram Rose."
New Rose Hotel.
Ginger - Jan 16, 2008 12:32:22 pm PST #3714 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Masque of the Red Death. The Fall of the House of Usher. Rappacini's Daughter. The Gift of the Magi. The Ransom of Red Chief. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Clarke's The Nine Billion Names of God. Avram Davidson's Or All the Seas with Oysters.
Cashmere - Jan 16, 2008 12:34:46 pm PST #3715 of 10001
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Rikki Tikki Tavi. Microcosmic God. Harrison Bergeron.
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 12:35:55 pm PST #3716 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Northerners Can be so Smug, A Good Man is Hard To Find
Scrappy - Jan 16, 2008 12:36:07 pm PST #3717 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Basically all of Flannery O'Conner's stories. Good Country People is my fave.
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 12:36:47 pm PST #3718 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Harrison Bergeron
What was that Ayn Rand story that HB always reminded me of?