What is your favorite short story?

[Mendocino]

Mine is The Big-Hearted River.

[The Blue Flower]

1. Strange Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By Ambrose Bierce, set during the Civil War.

[Ohiya]

3. Was this also a twilight zone episode?

I know I saw a video of this decades ago. It probably wasn't called a video back then.

[Glorfindel]

7. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, not Twilight Zone

From Wikipedia: "A TV version of the story starring British actor Ronald Howard was telecast in 1959 during the fifth season of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television anthology series."

I remember watching it. I had already read the story, though.

[Ohiya]

10. Aha! Thanks

Now that I think about it, I think saw it in a high school class in the stone age.

[Zorro]

11. Pretty sure it was a Twilight Zone episode

I remember it as a bit confounding when I watched it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. There was a Twilight Zone version of it.

I'm not familiar with the Alfred Hitchcock one, just the TZ one. I rather think it was only broadcast once, and not again. It was not an actual Twilight Zone production, but a French film that was purchased to be shown by that show.

[ChazInAz]

17. My first thought, too!

Second favorite is "Oil of Dog", also by Almighty God Bierce.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. The Lottery

by Shirley Jackson.

[Ohiya]

4. The Secret Integration

by Thomas Pynchon

[Glorfindel]

5. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelos"

by Ursula K. LeGuinn. Science fiction-ish, but very poignant and thought-provoking.

[Cartoonist]

6. The Moon Moth

By Jack Vance

[Glorfindel]

8. What a great thread! Thank you for starting it.

I love discovering new stories, and I have already spotted three here.

[Mendocino]

14. Thanks

I'm a proponent of the iceberg theory. Hemingway did more for less.

[Zorro]

9. The House of Asterion -- Jorge Luis Borges

Short but very creepy.

[cornball 24]

12. "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Yes! 2d favorite O. Henry story:

Cop and the Anthem

[Zen Democrat]

13. The Tell-Tale Heart. I think it describes people like Trump.

[TlalocW]

15. So many

I recall reading, "The Gun Without a Bang," by Robert Sheckley back in Middle School English class, and it was panned by the entire class, but that's because we didn't get satire. I've remembered it though, and I've come to appreciate it and would like to read it again, but it's difficult to find.

My favorite collection of short stories is, "Woman Hollering Creek," by Sandra Cisneros, a collection of stories about Mexican and Mexican-American women and what they face in their daily lives.

TlalocW

[R. P. McMurphy]

18. Can't pick just one.

"The Devil and Daniel Webster" - can't remember the author.

"The Open Window" - Saki

"The Ransom of Red Chief" - O. Henry

[pansypoo53219]

19. green thoughts? john collier. hell, his whole book of short stories. midnights & fancies?

i picked up a reprint of it on pure whim & was laughing my ass off on the bus ride home.

[yallerdawg]

20. Any by Stephen King!

Think of how many forests he saved with each short story published!!!

[CrispyQ]

21. Two.

The Ledge by Stephen King

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

[Paladin]

22. "The Destructors" by Graham Greene.

I first read it when I was just a kid and couldn't fully understand all the elements at play; I've read it at least a dozen times since, and it just gets better and better.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. My current favorite is "Just Before Recess" by James van Pelt.

Jim is a wonderful writer of short stories, currently has five collections out. I got the most recent this last weekend while at Mile Hi Con in Denver. Jim was also there and I got him to sign it for me. "Just Before Recess" is in Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Espadrille. The title story I didn't like at all.

You can read "Recess" on line. http://flashfictiononline.com/f20080301-just-before-recess-jim-van-pelt.html

I love the internet.