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Traditional
Short Stories
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The
Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (6,400 words) AUDIO |
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The
Swimmer by John Cheever (5050 Words) |
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Longer
Short Stories
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Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle (9,150 words) AUDIO A common theme in most detective stories is superior observation skills and deductive reasoning. A defining feature of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Red-Headed League is the way the facts presented by the gullible Wilson appear so bizarre to Watson as to defy interpretation. |
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Shorter
Short Stories
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| Altamont
2030 by Kurt Newton (1860 Words) It's a trip. |
| Oliver’s
Evolution by John Updike (650 words) Themes include parent-child relationships, neglect, responsibility, personal growth. |
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Portrait of a Lady by Khushwant
Singh (1,450 words) Audio A moving story about old age |
| Quiet Town by Jason Gurley ( (2,381 words)) |
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Speculative
Fiction
What science fiction does best: "Offers a mirror up to society, exploring how humanity might respond to sudden and seemingly impossible things.” |
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The Teleporting Disaster Fairy by Rati Mehrotra (4197 Words) AUDIO |
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Doll by Jeffrey Ford (5580 words) A middle-aged writer named Jeff Ford stops at a dilapidated roadside “Museum of Word Doll,” where the elderly curator, Beverly Gearing, tells him about a vanished rural ritual in which children received imaginary “word dolls” to help them endure long days of farm labor, and about the horrifying legend of the Mower Man that grew out of that practice. |
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The
Arborist by Derrick Boden (8210 words) |
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Non
Fiction
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