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Jul 13, - This weekend, Lydia Davis—crowned master of the very short story, not to mention a preeminent translator of classic French literature—turns.
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• Very Short Stories for Kids : Many Short Stories are here for your enrichment.
• “The Tribute” by Jane Gardam (1980)
• Short Short Stories

If a novel is a marriage, then a short story is a love affair. So said Lorrie Moore, one of the undisputed masters of the form. There's an inherent intensity to really good short fiction , an every-word-matters fervor urging readers to a revelatory finish.

Below are thirteen of our favorite short stories, from irrefutable classics by Jamaica Kincaid and Flannery O'Connor to newer additions to the pantheon— spanning crime , magical realism , and snackable tales you can devour on the beach. An added bonus? You can read these all online for free.

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Read this story—about a woman whose friend lays dying in a hospital—and weep, both because it's utterly devastating yet somehow laugh-out-loud funny? Read Now. A la Angela Carter, Machado rips up the fabric of fairy tales to expose the horror within.

In this terrifying tale from the Leonard Prize-winning collection Her Body and Other Parties , a newly-married wife holds on to the only secret she feels she has left—a mystery her increasingly insidious husband is desperate to unravel. A story of infidelity in the New Yorker might be as commonplace as an MTA delay, but here, the fearless author of Americanah renders an illicit relationship between a Nigerian woman and her married lover and the remorse the former may or may not feel years later with heart-shattering nuance. The modern maestro of absurdism brings a working class family's economic anxiety into sharp relief before and after they win the scratch-off lottery.

With the prize money, the dad, tired of feeling "dopey and inadequate," buys his young daughter a Semplica Girl—a human turned lawn ornament—in a disastrous attempt to keep up with the Joneses.

“The Tribute” by Jane Gardam (1980)

The stories in White's debut collection Sweet and Low are as lush and haunting as the place in which many of them are set: the Mississippi Delta. In this highlight from the book, White probes the seeming peace that often occurs in the eye of the storm, centering on a teen boy who becomes the manager of his high school's softball team—after his father, the coach, is caught having a relationship with one of the players.

It's tempting to call this classic story "short and sweet" but that latter descriptor might not be totally accurate. The story centers on the son of a white father and Chinese mother, the latter of whom knows no English and, despite being a source of comfort and literal magic, becomes an increasing irritation to a boy desperate to fit in.

If this story doesn't break your heart in a million pieces, then it might be time to get the old ticker checked out. I would recommend the course to anyone. How to Write Short Short Stories Very short stories, also called "short short stories" and "flash fiction" have become very popular. These stories can be as short as a few paragraphs or even a few lines. It's like a magic trick, packing a whole story into such a small space.

How do you pull this off? To start with, it's helpful to think about what makes a story a story. Even if your story is extremely short, you want it to feel complete and satisfying.

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For a story to feel like a story, something has to change between the beginning and the end. What could change? The character's situation. For example, at the beginning of the story, is trying to escape a burning building.

At the end, he reaches safety. The character's perspective on the situation. For example, at the beginning of the story, the character believes his wife is as happy in their marriage as he is. At the end, he realizes that she is hiding feelings of alienation. The reader's understanding of the situation. For example, the beginning of the story seems to take place at an idyllic vacation resort. At the end, the reader realizes that the resort is haunted and everyone working there is a ghost.

The story takes readers from Point A the character in the burning building, the character secure in his happy marriage, the character relaxing in a lovely resort to Point B the character safe from the fire, the character rethinking his marriage, the discovery that the resort is haunted. Now, let's talk about how to get all of this done ultra-fast and have it still be satisfying. Some strategies you can try: 1 Start late in the story. In an ultra-short story, there isn't time for a lot of introduction.

You have to jump right into the action. In the story about the haunted resort, you probably wouldn't show the character booking his trip, packing his suitcases, dozing on the plane You might start when he is checking into the hotel, admiring the beautiful lobby and at the same time noticing something a bit odd about the receptionist's behavior In the story about the character escaping the burning building, you might start with him crawling down a hallway with flames all around him.

In the story about the character realizing that his marriage is troubled, you might start the moment before this realization. Consider starting just before the story climax -- the most exciting or pivotal point in the story -- so that you can give it the attention it deserves. If you want to create the effect of a detailed picture, but you don't have room for a lot of details, you have to choose your details carefully.

Choose details that suggest a larger picture. If you say mention food-encrusted plates piled on the kitchen counter and a slice of week-old pizza congealing on the kitchen floor -- readers will imagine that the rest of the kitchen is dirty too. Choose details that create a certain feeling. If you want to give readers a creepy feeling about the haunted resort, you might focus on details that hint that are unnerving or hint that something isn't right -- e.

What are you trying to accomplish in your story? What is the central change that occurs between the story's beginning and its end? What feeling do you want to produce in your readers? In a very short story, there's no space for anything that isn't promoting this goal. You want to give readers a sense of a world that continues outside the frame of the story. You can use a hint or a gesture or a symbol to represent what goes on outside of that frame. For example, after your character's wife tells him she is unhappy in the marriage, maybe he promises to change, to be more sensitive to her needs.