Contemporary Short Stories
These stories are by contemporary authors.If you’ve never read these authors before, their free short stories will give you a taste of their style before you commit to one of their longer works. There’s something for everyone, with stories in genres ranging from sci-fi to historical fiction to horror.-
“The Hunter’s Wife” by Anthony Doerr
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“Premium Harmony” by Stephen King
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“Theory on the Origins of Time” by Maggie Shipstead
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“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Broads” by Roxane Gay
- “And of Clay We Are Created” by Isabel Allende
- “Girls, At Play” by Celeste Ng
- “Ghosts and Empties” by Lauren Groff
- “Alma” by Junot Díaz
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“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
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“The Faery Handbag” by Kelly Link
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“The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang
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“The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu
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“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell
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“Younger Women” by Karen Joy Fowler
- “Queenie” by Alice Munro
Classic Short Stories
If you haven’t read these classic short stories, you’re missing out. Cozy up and take 15 minutes to read one of these short stories today.-
The Nine Stories collection by J.D. Salinger
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“The Dead” by James Joyce
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“The Lady with the Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov
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“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
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“The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
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“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
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“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
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“In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka
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“Symbols and Signs” by Vladimir Nabokov
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“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
