Short Stories

A short story is a short work of prose fiction. It may be in any genre of fiction, and the exact definition of "short" will often depend on the genre.

Short stories are often collected together with other short stories, poetry, art, and/or essays in order to form a larger book, although it is becoming more common for short stories to be released as stand-alone ebooks.
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Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II: An Indigenous Horror Anthology
Sing Me A Story: Short Stories in Verse by Latine Authors
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein--Stories Untold
The Big Bad Book of Kaiju
Not Like Other Girls
Turned All to Silver Screens
The Fastest Martian Mile
We Were Forbidden
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
50 True Stories That Will Scare You to Death: True Crime, Hauntings, Aliens, and More
Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk (Magic & Mystery, #1)
The Wednesday Witches Book Club (Magic & Mystery, #2)
It Will Come Back To You
The Lion’s Tusk (Magic & Mystery, #3)
A Labyrinth of Honeybees (Magic & Mystery, #4)
Love Antidote
Picture This (Haven River Ranch, #2.5)
The Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder
Run for Your Life
John Grebble Is Gone
Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk (Magic & Mystery, #1)
A Welcome Reunion
Veil of Web and Ruin (The Hirathean Path, #0.5)
A Honeymoon in Venice
The Safe Room
Everybody's Favorite Guy
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
False Note
Como bestias
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
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10 Malayalam Must read before you die book
145 books — 2,326 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
769 books — 1,957 voters

Dark Forces by Kirby McCauleyThe Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell999 by Al SarrantonioSNAFU by Geoff BrownRead Us or Die by Jason Gehlert
Best Horror Anthologies
475 books — 552 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeWelcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Good short fiction
688 books — 391 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Quick Reads
1,096 books — 729 voters
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Indie Romantic Suspense/Thrillers
415 books — 606 voters

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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Interpreter of Maladies
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The Lottery
Tenth of December
Exhalation
Dubliners
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Nine Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
The Metamorphosis

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“ One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking u ...more ”
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Junot Díaz
“ We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its current form. I'm not going to say much more on the topic. Just remember: In dictatorships, only one person is really allowed to speak. And when I write a book or a story, I too am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters. ...more ”
― Junot Diaz

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