He bemoans middle age as having almost no redeeming features, except for having two guestrooms complete with luggage racks and en suites. ‘The Sex Lives of African Girls’ (Taiye Selasi, ‘Smokers’ (Tobias Wolff, The Atlantic, 1976), Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories. Celebrated fantasy and sci-fi writer N.K. A story about a young man and a young woman who take part in proxy marriages for soldiers posted abroad. Her daily work was not of the sitting-down kind. With gems such as “Pretty much everyone is from London. p.s. Told through different narrators, a vivid picture emerges not only of how they view the world, but also each other. I was introduced to Berlin’s work by one of her protégés, Chip Livingston, whose tremendously supple collection of prose, Naming Ceremony, I also highly recommend. She loved him unconditionally, and they would figure out a way to tell his father. A Day in the Life . 1. Especially when starting out. We’re going to cut to the chase: We know if you’re here, you love a good story. Throughout her thought-provoking narratives, she seamlessly takes readers to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and the Jim Crow South. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Stories on the Go: 101 Very Short Stories by 101 Authors, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964, The Labors of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #27), The Adventures of Armstrong Dent: The Complete First Season, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories, McSweeney's #10 Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (McSweeney's #10), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3), The New Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories, The New Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories, Behind the Front Fence : 30 Modern Australian Short Stories, Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings, The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories, The Penguin Book of English Short Stories, The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories, In Sunshine or in Shadow: Stories by Irish Women, Love 1 & 2: Erotic Tales from Sweden and Denmark. Where else are the lovers so wild with longing they confess “I want to rip her arm off. An eleventh century poet is resurrected to be an artificially intelligent companion on a spaceship. Especially when starting out. She was an only child, a thing I made her feel sorry about when the bidding slowed down at five bucks. I will use many of them in the classroom. Only one person, Alice Munro, has won a Nobel Prize in Literature solely for writing short stories, a significant nod to the fact that it takes great talent to create a fictional world in 4,000 words or less. His father was dead and his mother, a nurse, had three other kids to support, so Eugene didn’t think it would be fair to ask her for anything. list created September 9th, 2008 Eugene applied to all of them—”just for the hell of it”—and all of them accepted him. The writer who’s never heard of Barry Hannah probably requires a dose of Airships, and the writer who has never read Steven Millhauser needs to fall into “In the Reign of Harad IV” ASAP. James Joyce. Anjum Hasan. This collection of deeply-imagined speculative short stories burst with political subtext, a deep humanity and a hypnotic upending of the art of storytelling, while being distinctly set within a South Asian milieu. So I looked one of these kids in the eye and I said, “You, Tony Speck. But she was content to do what she did. The apartment was so cramped, and a boy my age, you just had to move around sometimes, especially during those cold months when you couldn’t go outside.