The post Treat your mind: The 13 best short stories ever written appeared first on The Manual. Many authors say that penning a great short story is harder than writing an entire novel.

Alice Munro's short story "Meneseteung”, published in her collection, Friend of My Youth, is about a poet Almeda Joynt Roth. While the narrator, whose sex is unclear, quotes from her poems and ...

Best short stories ever. Daily Times Monitor. July 21, 2017. THE NECKLACE BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT — the story tells the tale of a dissatisfied middle-class woman whose dreams of wealth and glamour ...

5. "The Stormchasers", by Adam Marek (published in The Best British Short Stories 2013). What's it about? A father takes his son out on a drive to try and track down a storm. Why should you read it?

Ever since she published her debut novel Prep in 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld has become one of America’s most beloved authors. The novels that have followed – American Wife, Rodham, Romantic ...

Because some of the most exciting American writing is happening in the fields of science fiction and fantasy right now, I hopped on the phone with the book's two editors, Joe Hill and John Joseph ...

Since I got the best of King's books out of the way, the next logical step was to go ahead and rank the 10 best Stephen King short stories. However, this proved to be a far more daunting task.

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula ...