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Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2018 at 3:36 pm by vulcanlogician.)
Post your favorite short stories here (or better yet, a link, so the thread doesn't become unweildy  )
It could be an original. It could be a classic. It could be a rare gem that nobody's heard of... whatever!
You could give your opinion or tell us why you like the story, or you could just post the link. (If a link can't be found, just the title/author.)
Here's two classics to get us started:
"The Three Questions" by Leo Tolstoy
"The Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka
(I can't vouch for the translations or youtube audio versions. But the stories themselves are great.)
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 2:25 pm
Cant find a full text or audio book.
Lila The Werewolf. Peter Beagle.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 2:41 pm
(March 31, 2018 at 2:25 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Cant find a full text or audio book.
Lila The Werewolf. Peter Beagle.
http://podcastle.org/2012/05/22/podcastl...-werewolf/
Story starts at 3:35.
I'll give it a listen later on 
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 2:43 pm
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danke
-for context, Ursala Leguin read this story and suggested that somebody might want to check in on Pete...in case he was thinking of murdering someone.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 5:17 pm
"Rescue Party" by Arthur C. Clarke. http://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/...47___1.htm
"All You Zombies" by Robert Anson Heinlein (Summary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies
"By His Bootstraps" by Robert Anson Heinlein (Summary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 5:21 pm
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My wife, vulcan...had never read that story- though she'd heard me extoll it's virtues before..........but she just listened all through (we both did)..the link you just dropped. Thx.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 7:06 pm
I just heard this recently and am very fond of it... does it count?
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 8:31 pm
Jefty Is Five by Harlan Ellison
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 8:41 pm
Just discovered this short story and am pissed I can't find a hardcover book that includes it. Here it is being read by the author's most famous student:
And a more famous story that profoundly influenced my own work:
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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RE: Post your Favorite Short Stories
March 31, 2018 at 9:14 pm
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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