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Traditional
Short Stories
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The
Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (6,400 words) |
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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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HATTERAS
By A. W. MASON (8740 Words) Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and Liberal Party Member of Parliament. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers, and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot. |
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Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle (9,150 words) 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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Longer
Short Stories
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Last Rights by Gustavo Bondoni (7157 Words) |
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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) hemes include parent-child relationships, neglect, responsibility, personal growth. |
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Hillcrest_V._Velikovsky
by Peter
Watts |
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The
Pale Man By Julius Long (2,319 words |
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Shaky Bridge by Marrisa Lingen (2870 Words) On the perils of AI prosthetics |
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The Princess
and the Tin Box by James Thurber (750 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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Bitsy Spider
By James Patrick Kelly (4840 Words) Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1998. Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1997 |
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Dune by Stephen King (4880 Words) A chillling tale by the master of same. |
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The
First Felumans by Harrison Bae Wein (4800 Words) |
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BIBLE REPAIRMAN By Tim Powers (4820 Words) Although the theme is black magic the setting is disturbingly real. |
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Wend-Way-Go
by Tim Pratt (4978 Words) |
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The Arborist by Derrick Boden (8210 words) |
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Non
Fiction
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