yeah i have to read a story but i don't know what...
2007-10-08 15:44:25 · 16 answers · asked by xxzeus305 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I know some people have already suggested it, but I'm also going to vote for "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.
Great, great story. You can read it online.
2007-10-08 16:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by tecualajuggernauts 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The one that has stayed with me for at least 10 years is "The Fog" by Stephen King. Yes, it's the movie that came out recently, but, like all stories that have been made into a movie, the written word is so much better. I found the story in an Ellery Queen Magazine. The writing was so descriptive and the content so potentially scary that it has lingered in my thoughts, coming to the forefront every so often just to give me a little thrill and chill and shudder down my spine.
Like some one previously noted, I also liked "The Lottery". It too has managed to stay in my brain, and it's been probably 35 years since I read that one.
2007-10-08 22:57:20 · answer #2 · answered by RobinLu 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love short stories, but the ones that have always stuck with me are
The Lottery- Shirley Jackson
The Mist - Stephen King ( coming out soon as a movie so read it fast)
The Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe
I like dark stories so I can suggest any short stories by King, but even more highly those by Poe.
There is also a great book call Dark Love, it is a collection of short stories about relationships with a dark twist by various authors. Very interesting.
2007-10-09 14:17:00 · answer #3 · answered by MelpomeneTears 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think there is a BEST short story; each according to his tastes.
However, I loved The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens. (His story The Signal-Man was very good, too.)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving is fun to read.
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry is a wonderful tale.
I, too, really enjoyed The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is a very creepy, but good, short story.
2007-10-08 23:04:23 · answer #4 · answered by ck1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try some Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). The Tell-Tale Heart. He practically invented the short story. And he is still very fun to read. But don't take my word for it. Ask it as a question, you are bound to get a good result.
2007-10-08 23:03:03 · answer #5 · answered by mike t 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I really loved "The Lottery" when we did American Literature in junior year many years ago--and I'm not a big reader. It paints a picture of the lovely, picturesque town in the Midwest, but the lottery is something rather horrible--and you never see it coming until very close to the end.
I like many of Poe's short stories, too, but they can be a hard read. "The Lottery" is smooth.
2007-10-08 22:48:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
most of my favorite short stories are from ray bradbury.
"frost and fire" which is about a civilization that lives and dies over the course of just a few days on a planet much nearer the sun than ours, and the one person who would try to fight to live longer.
"dark they were, and golden eyed" which is about humans living on mars, transitioning into something else.
"a piece of wood", about getting the upper hand, so to speak.
"there will come soft rains" which makes me cry. it's about an automated house in the future with no humans left to inhabit it.
also, i really like issac asimov's "bicentennial man." it's really cute! if you like robots, asimov's short stories are amazing.
also, one that i read in high school that i thought was really neat was called "the rocking horse winner." can't recall the author though. and "the most dangerous game," but it's wayyyyy overhyped by today's literature teachers.
2007-10-09 06:44:24 · answer #7 · answered by west_xylaphone 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A very good one is 'Flowers for Algernon'. Try it and see.
"I stand here Ironing" is also thought provoking.
The short story is very hard to write - for some good ones, you need go no further than Raymond Carver.
Happy reading
2007-10-08 23:06:13 · answer #8 · answered by elmina 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have to vote for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." An excellent look at a truly insane character. The dark humor is so much fun. And what a perfect time of year to read it!
2007-10-08 22:58:57 · answer #9 · answered by purpleallium 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is an awesome story. She also wrote, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE.
This has been made into a movie two times.
Any of Stephen King's short stories, they are so strange.
Poul Anderson wrote a delightful little story called,"Trigger Tree." It was always one of my favorites.
2007-10-08 23:12:20 · answer #10 · answered by ♫ Bubastes, Cat Goddess♥ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋