Short Stories

Post Reply New Topic

I read a lot, fiction and non fiction.

My favourite escape is a great short story.

A couple of great short story writers I like are Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Eugene McCabe and Mary Lavin.

Care to share?

peace j

here is a VERY short story for ya:

"She wasn't really my type, a hard-looking but untalented reporter from the local cat box liner, but the first second that the third-rate representative of the fourth estate cracked open a new fifth of old Scotch, my sixth sense said seventh heaven was as close as an eighth note from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so, nervous as a tenth grader drowning in eleventh-hour cramming for a physics exam, I swept her into my longing arms, and, humming "The Twelfth of Never," I got lucky on Friday the thirteenth. "

[the above trifle was a 1993 bullwer/lytton award winner]