So... we all read short stories. I'm sure of it. If you don't in your free time, then your English teacher would probably give you some to read. And even if you don't like most of the assigned reading, there ARE a few short stories that are pretty freaking cool.

Like...

"A Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

"Where are you going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates (dedicated to Bob Dylan)

"The Storm" by Kate Chopin --- written in 1800 and the basis for all the smutty romance books we have now-a-days. Our teacher had us read it in class... she's possibly the best english teacher I've ever had.

"Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston.

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.




are there any short stories you like in particular?

^ I detest Kate Chopin's style. It's too bland for my taste. Faulkner.. *drools* Anywho, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
HILARIOUS.

^^, ahhh, I liked "The Lottery" too. so freakin' good.

I read "A Story of an Hour" for my English class (actually, a test) and it is a very interesting story. The ending surprised me a bit; I didn't understand it at first. Most of my classmates thought the protagonist committed suicide, which is strange.

I want to read "The Lottery"!

I disliked Kate Chopin's The Awakening (but that wasn't exactly a "short story," I don't think. "The Lottery" was.. eh.

Anyway, at the time I read it, I liked Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," although not so much anymore. Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," I still like.

OH, and Neil Gaiman's Smoke & Mirrors is a FANTASTIC collection of short stories. <3 And umm.. Villains Victorious was also a good collection of short stories where the bad guy conquers. :D

Yeah.. Chopin.. And gahh how could I forget Poe! Well, it seems so typical of teenagers to say Poe is their favorite writer, but they have good reason to. As common as it is, I still love "The Tell-Tale Heart." I was at a forensics competition a couple years ago where the kid did the piece in an entirely humorous fashion. It was great. I don't think he won, though.. which is sad. "The Masque of the Red Death" is good as well.

"The Lottery" is a great one. "A Rose for Emily" was pretty good, too. I'm trying to think of another one, I"ll come back here when I figure it out.

I've enjoyed many of O. Henry's short stories.

Interpreter of Maladies is a pretty good book of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri..
It even won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

I think I read it 3 years ago

Last year at my school, a group of people from this organization performed
"Note to my sixth-grade self" by Julie Orringer, word for word. They memorized every single word, even narration. And it was soooo good. I loved it.

We read a lot of those in ninth grade. They were good.

Hm, we just finished "Metamorphasis", a novella by Franz Kafka.

It's... strange. It makes me think... if I could be a bug-like thing, I'd want to be a spider.