I have some newish collections of short stories that have some good ones, including the 2007 Best Unrequired Reading (or something like that) and a McSweeney's collection of Astonishing Tales (or something like that).
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
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.
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:30:27 pm PST #3776 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 4:31:44 pm PST #3777 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
2007 Best Unrequired Reading
Oh I think I have that from the year before! I got it while visiting with Hec and JZ and Matilda at City Lights!
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:32:51 pm PST #3778 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Gadget_Girl - Jan 16, 2008 4:34:20 pm PST #3779 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
I would much rather be reading short stories right now. Alas, my fate is to be finishing term papers. Gads, these kids can't write! It scares me that they are in 11th grade and are incapable of doing a research project.
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:50:32 pm PST #3780 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, does anyone here have kids who like Angelina Ballerina? I have no idea if it's even current, but I have this random DVD I got from work that I would send anyone who's interested.
sarameg - Jan 16, 2008 4:51:44 pm PST #3781 of 10001
I just tripped over the cat and bashed my arm but good and smashed a glass.
Am I done? Please?
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 4:54:35 pm PST #3782 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe take tomorrow off and just sit very still.
Strega - Jan 16, 2008 4:57:25 pm PST #3783 of 10001
I think some of my favorites are:
Dr. Zombie and His Little Furry Friends - Robert Sheckley
Lonelyache - Harlan Ellison
(Pretty much anything by Sheckley or Ellison, really.)
Instructions - Bob Leman
Fondly Fahrenheit - Alfred Bester
Nackles - Donald Westlake
The Great Switcheroo - Roald Dahl
Okay, line breaks would help.
meara - Jan 16, 2008 5:00:03 pm PST #3784 of 10001
Ooh, I love that Buffistas can come up with all these short stories they love. Several of the ones mentioned are faves of mine, but many make me want to get out some short story collections I have--Connie Willis has a book with several great ones, and I seem to recall loving a set of Spider Robinson ones too (he can be annoying and cheesy in his longer stuff, often, but I did like the shorts a lot)
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2008 5:00:08 pm PST #3785 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'd been looking for the out-of-print collection of CL Moore's stories
Hec gave me one at the first F2F. t /random Buffista memory
t edit I don't know that it was out-of-print; but it's a collection of CL Moore's Northwest Smith stories.