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Thanks for all the great suggestions - and remionders of stiories I have read and loved and will now re-visit.
Some of my favorites - in no particular order:
The Enormous Radio - John Cheever (almost anything By Cheever is excellent)
The Temptation of St. Ivo - John Gardner
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
The Lady with the Dog - Anton Chekhov
Will You Please Be Quiet Please - Raymond Carver (Lots of great stuff by him)
Hands - Sherwood Anderson
The Dead - James Joyce (ALL of Dubliners could be listed)
Big Blonde - Dorothy Parker
Just Like Little Dogs - Dylan Thomas
Death of a Traveling Salesman - Eudora Welty
The Pedestrian - Ray Bradbury
A Double-Barreled Detective Story - Mark Twain
Novellas that I like and are listed above as well - Bartleby the Scrivener, A Christmas Carol, Heart of Darkness, The Mysterious Stranger - not technically short stories, but very good indeed!
Last edited by januaryman; 04-01-2011 at 08:44 AM.
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