Life Musings

Here is a list of great short stories that have been recommended to me (either directly or indirectly). I'd love to read them all someday. I just don't get to digest as much fiction as I'd like to, and I do love the short story format.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"The Remoras" by Robert Reed
"Press Enter" by John Varley
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
"The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Cordwainer Smith
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger
"Lost in the Funhouse" by John Barth
"The Pusher" by John Varley
"Coming Attraction" by Fritz Leiber
"The Lottery" and "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" by Shirley Jackson
"Tell the Women We're Going" by Raymond Carver
"Understand" by Ted Chiang
"5,271,009" by Alfred Bester
"Carcinoma Angels" by Norman Spinrad
"It" by Theodore Sturgeon (no relation to the Stephen King novel).
"And I Awoke and Find Me Here on the Cold Hill Side" by James Tiptree, Jr.
"Speech Sounds" by Octavia Butler
"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"What Was the Name of that Town?" by R. A. Lafferty