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Subject: What's your favorite kind of short story?

"There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I'd like to think that I walk that line every day."

As in, which sort interest you the most, keep you dialed in from start to finish - what about them captivates you? Is it a specific genre, or is it a specific aspect?

By "short", I mean only a number - maybe a couple dozen - of pages long, at most.

  • 12.02.2012 8:24 PM PDT
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The kind where the hero dies.

  • 12.02.2012 8:24 PM PDT

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Short, Scary ones!

  • 12.02.2012 8:25 PM PDT

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The seven page variety that show only a sliver of a much larger story.

  • 12.02.2012 8:26 PM PDT

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Science Fiction - I like short stories that provide you with a sense of closure, although those are fairly rare - short stories that provide an uncertain ending just don't give me the same satisfaction as a full-length novel.

For an example of the former, Issac Asimov's Nightfall has got to be one of the best, if not the best SF short story of all time.

  • 12.02.2012 8:26 PM PDT

"There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I'd like to think that I walk that line every day."

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
The seven page variety that show only a sliver of a much larger story.
So you don't like short stories? Or you like ones that have the potential to be more expansive, but stop short, maybe on purpose?

[Edited on 12.02.2012 8:28 PM PST]

  • 12.02.2012 8:28 PM PDT

the kind that i try to write

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=76115492 /self promoting

  • 12.02.2012 8:30 PM PDT

Sci-fi, contemplative. See "The Draco Tavern" by Larry Niven.

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Posted by: Defogner
the kind that i try to write

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=76115492 /self promoting


Ah that post from last night. Still needs paragraphs.

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