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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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Ordinary Son by Ron Carlson (7,460 words) The story from Ron Carlson is a satire of 1960s life and its fixation with science, war, protest and material possessions. |
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Quilt / Lihaaf by Ismat Chughtai (3,600 words) |
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Longer
Short Stories
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Last Rights by Gustavo Bondoni (7157 Words) |
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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. |
| The
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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Signs
and Symbols –
Vladimir Nabokov (2,150 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.” |
| Roadkill
by Mercesed Lackey ((2250 Words) Well written scarey tale. |
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BIBLE REPAIRMAN By Tim Powers (4820 Words) Although the theme is black magic the setting is disturbingly real. Vickery, haunted by the ghost of his deceased daughter from a botched exorcism, lives a marginal existence amid ghosts and occult dealings in a world where souls are commodities. His routine shatters when a widow hires him to rescue her living daughter, kidnapped by a cult leader practicing voodoo-like rituals involving dybbuks and soul-trapping. The mission forces Vickery to confront his past sins, including the murder that tainted his soul, and seek redemption through a perilous spiritual showdown. |
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The
Arborist by Derrick Boden (8210 words) |
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Non
Fiction
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