The Undiscovered Chekhov
Unpublished works collected and translated by Peter Constantine
short-stories
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Feelings
A short story about how to achieve empathy through compassion and imagination using the complexities of young children and adults as a prism.
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Mother River
Short stories from renowned Chinese author Can Xue.
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Musems and Women and other stories
A collection of short stories.
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The Swimmer
Ned Merrill is at a party and suddenly envisions himself as a great man about to embark on a swim across the county by way of backyard pools in a tony suburban NY community.
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Antarctica
I separate these very well-written stories into the following categories: dark, sad or scary.
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Seven Empty Houses
Schweblin, an Argentinian writer, has written the finest story I've yet read about someone experiencing dementia…
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Josephine the Singer
Narrated by fellow mouse, who reflects on Josephine's (a mouse) significance within their society.
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Malgudi Days
Short tales by R.K. Narayan taking place in the fictional town of Malgudi.
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Clay
Multi-levels of meaning and potential interpretation exist in this, one of Joyce's shortest stories.
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Pastoralia
My favorite collection of Saunders' short stories until Tenth of December
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The Bear
The Bear follows a young boy named Isaac McCaslin, who goes on numerous hunting trips into the wilderness with his uncle and other men.
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Liberation Day
A collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair,
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Collected Stories by Donald Barthelme
His scrambled visions of history yield unexpected insights. And his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, was for him a guiding light. Delight in his frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring like a well-marbled ribeye.
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Entropy
explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party; other stories included in the volume
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Exhalation - Stories
Chiang's collection tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
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Cowboy Graves
A collection of short stories.
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Why I Live at the PO
a first-person narrative that revolves around the character known as Sister. She recounts the events leading up to her decision to leave her family home.
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The Cyberiad
_The Cyberiad_ are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as “constructors,” who have created marvels for kingdoms.
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William Trevor's Last Stories
The story about the piano teacher has stayed and will stay with me for a while…
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Cathedral
his third collection of stories and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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Flying to America
published in 2007, this book presents all of Barthelme’s previously unpublished and uncollected short fiction
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The Nose
follows the bizarre misadventures of Major Kovalyov and his missing nose
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The Dead
Final story in Joyce's collection of short stories, The Dubliners.
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Fox 8
The story of Fox8, a clever and curious fox living in a suburban landscape impacted by human development.
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The Purloined Letter
The Purloined Letter begins with Dupin's friend, the narrator, visiting him…
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The Gold Bug
…the adventure of an unnamed narrator and his eccentric friend, William Legrand, as they search for buried treasure.
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The Great Wall of China
a fictional account that explores the construction and purpose of the Great Wall, employing allegory and philosophical themes.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
…a high-ranking Russian bureaucrat, and his gradual realization of his own mortality as he faces a terminal illness.
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The Lemon Table
The book explores themes of aging, mortality, and the complexities of human relationships through a series of interconnected narratives.