“Premium Harmony” by Stephen King “Theory on the Origins of Time” by Maggie Shipstead “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin “Broads” by Roxane Gay
“And of Clay We Are Created” by Isabel Allende
“Girls, At Play” by Celeste Ng
“Ghosts and Empties” by Lauren Groff
“Alma” by Junot Díaz
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
“The Faery Handbag” by Kelly Link “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell “Younger Women” by Karen Joy Fowler
“Queenie” by Alice Munro
Classic Short Stories
If you haven’t read these classic short stories, you’re missing out. Cozy up and take 15 minutes to read one of these short stories today.
The Nine Stories collection by J.D. Salinger
“The Dead” by James Joyce “The Lady with the Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov “To Build a Fire” by Jack London “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville “In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka “Symbols and Signs” by Vladimir Nabokov “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
What are your favorite short stories?
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