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Over 1 million authors trust the professionals on Reedsy, come meet them. Reedsy Prompts is home to the largest short stories collection. Check out 25000+ stories by up & coming writers across the world. Choose the genre of your interest and start reading now from the largest online collection of handpicked short stories for free!
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The Best Fiction Short Stories. Short fiction stories are a fantastic way to access the literary world in compact, bite-sized reading sessions. The short story as we know it today began in the 19th century, when the increasing interest in print literary magazines led to many authors like Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens writing and publishing stories.
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1. Bliss Montage by Ling Ma. "The eight wily tales mark the return of an author whose inventive debut, Severance, urgently announced her as a writer worth watching … an assured follow-up, a striking collection that peddles in the uncanny and the surreal, but it often lacks Severance 's zest.
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As an ominously prescient prediction of the downside of technology, "The Veldt" is a short and shining example of how Ray Bradbury was an author before his time. 10. "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. In this classic short story, we are privy to the journals of Charlie Gordon, a cleaner with an IQ of 68.
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The stories on this page are taken from Reedsy's writing contest. At the top of the page, you'll find entries shortlisted by our panel of judges, representing the best contemporary stories from the hundreds of submissions each week. We also compile the best of the best for publication in Prompted, our brand new literary magazine.
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This list of must-read contemporary short story collections is sponsored by Random House's Buzziest Short Story Collections of 2018. ... "Black humor mixed with pathos is the hallmark of the twelve stories in this adult debut collection from a master writer of comic and inventive YA novels…Beaudoin's stories are edgy and profane ...
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A rather lyrical one, and a touch sadder than most of the stories on this list. #13. Laser Tag My Heart by JAceyJInx. Something fishy was going on, and my suspicions were confirmed when Ryan walked past and told me it was just me and Zach left, all alone in this dark, dark place with many corners and hidey-holes.
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