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    Short Stories

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    Lacanoodle@literature.cafeM · 1 year ago

    Welcome to Short Stories!

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    Lacanoodle@literature.cafeM · 1 year ago
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    m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish · 4 days ago

    "Pig", Roald Dahl

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    m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish · 4 days ago
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    BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 6 days ago

    The White People, Arthur Machen.

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    BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 6 days ago
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    BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 18 days ago

    Zach Williams, "Neighbours".

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    BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 18 days ago
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    m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish · 21 days ago

    A 2030 morning routine

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    m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish · 21 days ago
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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 21 days ago

    U.F.O. in Kushiro By Haruki Murakami

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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 21 days ago
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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 22 days ago

    Barn Burning By Haruki Murakami

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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 22 days ago
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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 24 days ago

    I toured the future of birth (OC)

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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 24 days ago
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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 27 days ago

    Labyrinth by Roberto Bolano

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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 27 days ago
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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 27 days ago

    Reunion by John Cheever

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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 27 days ago
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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 27 days ago

    Lu, Reshaping By Madeleine Thien

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    SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comM · 27 days ago
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    BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 29 days ago

    Anthony Doerr, "The Hunter's Wife".

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    BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 29 days ago
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    Broken_Orange_Juice@lemmy.world · 30 days ago

    The Second Death

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    Broken_Orange_Juice@lemmy.world · 30 days ago
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    Vainamoinen@leminal.space · 1 month ago

    The TechBros

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    Volume VII: The Neck People

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    m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish · 1 month ago

    Ray Bradbury - Kaleidoscope

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    tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month ago

    Awake in the Night by John C Wright

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    James Joyce, "A Little Cloud" [modernist literary]

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    Sergio@slrpnk.net · 3 months ago

    Pat Cadigan, "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" [Science Fiction]

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    PhilipTheBucketA · 3 months ago

    Eight Never-Before-Seen Short Stories by Harper Lee Will Be Published This Year

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