It's a lovely Sunday here and I'm on the hunt for some short-form reading. I assume this crowd will lean towards scifi but that's not a requirement for this thread.<p>I'll start with AutoFac, a Phillip K. Dick story about living in a post-scarcity world where things get thoroughly pizzled: https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1955-11/Galaxy_1955_11#page/n71/mode/2up
The Swimmer by John Cheever and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula LaGuin are my favorite short stories. So much depth and feeling packed into such tiny packages!
Robert Arthur - "The Marvelous Stamps of El Dorado"<p>Frederick Forsyth - "The Shepherd"[0]<p>[0] A great live reading from Al Maitland (aired nationwide across Canada on CBC every Christmas):<p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/fireside-al-maitland-reads-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.2472038" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/fireside-al-maitland-rea...</a>
I like Salman Rushdie's "East-West," "9 June 2015“ about people who never die from Alan Lightmans <i>Einstein's Dreams</i>, if you like ghost stories I recommend JS Le Fanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street."
Eight O'clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson which was the basis for the movie They Live.<p>Read it here: <a href="http://www.whale.to/b/eight_o.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.whale.to/b/eight_o.html</a><p>The Egg by Andy Weir
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"They're Made Out Of Meat" by Terry Bisson: <a href="http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html</a><p>"Scroogled" by Cory Doctorow: <a href="http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html</a>
Here a couple of my favorites.<p><a href="http://ficly.com/stories/1456" rel="nofollow">http://ficly.com/stories/1456</a> - be careful what you wish for<p><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts/The_Open_Window" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts/The_O...</a>
I like Who Moved my Cheese - Dr. Spencer Johnson<p><a href="http://jef.mentalis.org/hersenspinsels/downloads/WhoMovedMyCheese_DrSpencerJohnson.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://jef.mentalis.org/hersenspinsels/downloads/WhoMovedMyC...</a>
The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway ><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4625.The_Complete_Short_Stories" rel="nofollow">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4625.The_Complete_Short_S...</a>
I really like Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford. <a href="http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of-darkness/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of...</a>
The Burning Chrome collection by William Gibson is always worth a read.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_collection)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_co...</a>
Zen Shorts is one of my favorites
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It's Monday but if I have think of a non sci-fi short story for a lovely Sunday, it will have to be anything from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P.G.Wodehouse for me.
The A&P by John Updike<p><a href="http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/</a>
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov is a classic one - <a href="http://multivax.com/last_question.html" rel="nofollow">http://multivax.com/last_question.html</a>
much of O. Henry, "The gift of the Magi", and "The Last Leaf" are really good. Also virtually anything by Borges, "The Library of Babel" is a nice place to start.