Great Shorts

Welcome to Great Shorts, a compilation of my favorite short stories. A well-written story is a thing of beauty, and these are some real gems that span a number of years and genres. I've also included the major resources I used in putting this together, because this is only a fraction of all the great writers and stories that are available on the World Wide Web.

  1. The Enchanted Buffalo, by L. Frank Baum
  2. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce
  3. A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury
  4. The Swimmer, by John Cheever
  5. The Shoemaker and the Devil, by Anton Chekhov
  6. The Haunted Space Suit, by Arthur C. Clarke
  7. A Dark Brown Dog, by Stephen Crane
  8. The Adventure of the Speckled Band, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner
  10. How to Talk to Girls at Parties, by Neil Gaiman
  11. The Birthmark, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  12. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, by Ernest Hemingway
  13. The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
  14. The Ransom of Red Chief, by O. Henry
  15. The Tower of the Elephont, by Robert E. Howard
  16. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
  17. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
  18. The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs
  19. The Bleak Shore, by Fritz Leiber
  20. To Build a Fire, by Jack London
  21. The Alchemist, by H. P. Lovecraft
  22. Rain, by W. Somerset Maugham
  23. A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
  24. The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe
  25. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain
  26. The Use of Force, by William Carlos Williams

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