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Fiction

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18. Can't pick just one.

Mon Oct 30, 2017, 11:53 AM

Oct 2017

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

"The Open Window" - Saki

"The Ransom of Red Chief" - O. Henry

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What is your favorite short story? [View all] Mendocino Oct 2017 OP

Strange Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Blue Flower Oct 2017 #1

Was this also a twilight zone episode? Ohiya Oct 2017 #3

Alfred Hitchcock Presents, not Twilight Zone Glorfindel Oct 2017 #7

Aha! Thanks Ohiya Oct 2017 #10

Pretty sure it was a Twilight Zone episode Zorro Oct 2017 #11

There was a Twilight Zone version of it. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2017 #23

My first thought, too! ChazInAz Oct 2017 #17

The Lottery Polly Hennessey Oct 2017 #2

The Secret Integration Ohiya Oct 2017 #4

"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelos" Glorfindel Oct 2017 #5

The Moon Moth Cartoonist Oct 2017 #6

What a great thread! Thank you for starting it. Glorfindel Oct 2017 #8

Thanks Mendocino Oct 2017 #14

The House of Asterion -- Jorge Luis Borges Zorro Oct 2017 #9

"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry cornball 24 Oct 2017 #12

Yes! 2d favorite O. Henry story: no_hypocrisy Oct 2017 #16

The Tell-Tale Heart. I think it describes people like Trump. Zen Democrat Oct 2017 #13

So many TlalocW Oct 2017 #15

Can't pick just one. R. P. McMurphy Oct 2017 #18

Any by Stephen King! yallerdawg Oct 2017 #20

Two. CrispyQ Oct 2017 #21

"The Destructors" by Graham Greene. Paladin Oct 2017 #22

My current favorite is "Just Before Recess" by James van Pelt. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2017 #24