I haven't had time to stop and put together another list and it doesn't look like I will have a chance to, but I do want to plug Tomorrow is Waiting again. I read it today at lunch (only a few minute read) and it is one of the very few* positive stories about artificial intelligence. I think it is a great read for the month of December and works well between Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Since it looks like I won't have time to look for other stories, I will second Manna and Mistletoe as well.

*At least I assume there are others. :)

I third Mistletoe in Manhattan.

I nominate The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.

I have read that this (and not A Christmas Carol) was Dickens' most popular Christmas story during his lifetime.

From our dear Patricia Clark's Memorial Library...

Kindle
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17198

ePub
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54206

I second The Cricket on the Hearth*by*Charles Dickens.

Third The Cricket on the Hearth.

I'm going to nominate:

This is not Your City by Caitlin Horrocks. A completely random find in the realm of short stories.

I'd love to nominate S is for Space by Ray Bradbury, but it is not available as an e-book.

I have proofed the book collections of Oscar Wilde and Henry James that contain the nominated texts against print copies, and corrected hundreds of mistakes and variants, so you might want to download them again if you did so before.

In the case of the Henry James story, it had the heavily revised version of the 1912 New York edition, and has now been restored to the text of the 1895 Heinemann edition. Choose wisely!

I'll nominate "Mayfly" by Heather Lindsley. It is available in Strange Horizons at:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/...mayfly-f.shtml

It is a remarkable story, very imaginative with a distinctly lateral quality.

I would like to nominate "Hardly Knew Her" by Laura Lippman.

I knew there was something I forgot to do this morning when I posted the poll.

The nominations are now closed.

Sorry, obs20. Lippman would have been a good choice, too. :(

The good news is that so far the voting seems more active than the nominations this month.

Mr. Dickens and Mr. Wilde seem to be at a dead heat relative to each other. :)

People seem evenly split between the two. Everyone who has voted so far has voted for both.

Not quite. I voted for just one of the two. Not that there is anything wrong with either one. I just like one of the stories better.

Ah, I see. Luffy voted just opposite. For what it's worth, I think I should have vote like you, but I'll be happy with either choice. I'll probably read both, anyway.