Comments on: 13 of My Favorite Short Stories… Evah! http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/ it's not chick porn Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:11:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Dawn http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10773 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:39:24 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10773 Hi all! I am so grateful that you listed Patriotism by Yukio Mishima. I vividly remember the story (how could you not?) but couldn't remember who wrote it. But I remember thinking how incredibly beautiful and sick it was. I have read accounts of his suicide and and that he wrote but completely missed the connection. I am so happy now. Put me down in the major problems category too. Hi all!

I am so grateful that you listed Patriotism by Yukio Mishima.

I vividly remember the story (how could you not?) but couldn’t remember who wrote it. But I remember thinking how incredibly beautiful and sick it was.

I have read accounts of his suicide and and that he wrote but completely missed the connection. I am so happy now.

Put me down in the major problems category too.

]]> by: raine http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10476 Fri, 25 May 2007 07:18:41 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10476 The Lottery, The Lottery...YESSS!! One of my favorite stories EVER, brought to you by the woman who also wrote The Haunting of Hill House! I LOVED that story. The Lottery, The Lottery…YESSS!!
One of my favorite stories EVER, brought to you by the woman who also wrote The Haunting of Hill House!
I LOVED that story.

]]> by: Ann(ie) http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10462 Fri, 25 May 2007 00:38:33 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10462 Next week, I think I'll do "13 Books I love that you've probably never heard of." Dig into my obscure reading past. Next week, I think I’ll do “13 Books I love that you’ve probably never heard of.” Dig into my obscure reading past.

]]> by: Sherrie http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10461 Thu, 24 May 2007 22:00:22 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10461 I read The Mist when I was in grade 8 and I just remember it burning a hole in my brain! :) Awesome list, I am going to try to dig up 2, 6 and 13. I read The Mist when I was in grade 8 and I just remember it burning a hole in my brain! :) Awesome list, I am going to try to dig up 2, 6 and 13.

]]> by: Erica R http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10459 Thu, 24 May 2007 21:16:58 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10459 I read a few of those... and will have to check out the rest! I read a few of those… and will have to check out the rest!

]]> by: Darla http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10458 Thu, 24 May 2007 21:16:30 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10458 I hardly ever read short stories, so it surprises me that I've read several of these. And Anthem. Ditto what FerfeLaBat said ^. I hardly ever read short stories, so it surprises me that I’ve read several of these. And Anthem. Ditto what FerfeLaBat said ^.

]]> by: FerfeLaBat http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10457 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:25:41 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10457 She wrote Anthem at the same time she wrote The Fountainhead. While I really enjoyed the romance in both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, it was the -- in this day and age would you call it politics? She was more intensely anti religion than hyper political. But her social and philosophical underpinnings made the stories more than just enjoyable fiction. I re-read them about every three years along with Gone With The Wind and a few other favorites. She wrote Anthem at the same time she wrote The Fountainhead. While I really enjoyed the romance in both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, it was the — in this day and age would you call it politics? She was more intensely anti religion than hyper political. But her social and philosophical underpinnings made the stories more than just enjoyable fiction. I re-read them about every three years along with Gone With The Wind and a few other favorites.

]]> by: Ann(ie) http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10456 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:16:45 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10456 Haven't read Rand's short stories, but I read <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> and <i>The Fountainhead</i>. Once I got past the heavy troweling of politics and agenda, I actually found her to be quite an engaging writer. It's a thick layer, though. Haven’t read Rand’s short stories, but I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Once I got past the heavy troweling of politics and agenda, I actually found her to be quite an engaging writer. It’s a thick layer, though.

]]> by: bam http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10455 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:09:33 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10455 <blockquote>“Division by Zero” by Ted Chiang</blockquote> Dude, I forgot to add <em>Hell is the absence of God</em>, April. Fucking brilliant.

“Division by Zero” by Ted Chiang

Dude, I forgot to add Hell is the absence of God, April. Fucking brilliant.

]]> by: CoraZane http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10453 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:00:47 +0000 http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/05/24/13-of-my-favorite-short-stories-evah/#comment-10453 I'm going to have to look up Octavia Butler and Katherine MacLean. I *heart* the really screwed up shortie short fics. My favorite short story, I can't recall the title or the anthology it came from (1993ish when I read it), but that doesn't stop me from trying to find the story again. In it, a married woman touring the Amazon has an affair with this local man who tells her about the animals coming out of the woods to mate with humans. When she arrives home from her tour, she gets this small swelling on the side of her neck, like a boil. She goes to the dr. about it, but he tells her it's just a cyst - nothing to worry about. However, it continues to swell, and one evening as she is playing pitch with her kids and husband in the yard, she gets hit in the neck with the ball... and all these hundreds of baby spiders come pouring out. *enter oogly boogly music here* Ah, gotta love it. Horror stories with a moral message. ^_^ I’m going to have to look up Octavia Butler and Katherine MacLean. I *heart* the really screwed up shortie short fics. My favorite short story, I can’t recall the title or the anthology it came from (1993ish when I read it), but that doesn’t stop me from trying to find the story again. In it, a married woman touring the Amazon has an affair with this local man who tells her about the animals coming out of the woods to mate with humans. When she arrives home from her tour, she gets this small swelling on the side of her neck, like a boil. She goes to the dr. about it, but he tells her it’s just a cyst - nothing to worry about. However, it continues to swell, and one evening as she is playing pitch with her kids and husband in the yard, she gets hit in the neck with the ball… and all these hundreds of baby spiders come pouring out. *enter oogly boogly music here* Ah, gotta love it. Horror stories with a moral message. ^_^

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