This page is a bank of all my favorite short stories - provided I could find them as free PDFs!
I love recommending these to friends but needed a neater system for sharing them.
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You will notice I have a huge soft spot for sci-fi. :)
I love recommending these to friends but needed a neater system for sharing them.
For full-length novel recs, www.goodreads.com/user/show/46462443-grace
You will notice I have a huge soft spot for sci-fi. :)
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One of Ray Bradbury's happier stories! As my favorite author, Bradbury definitely knows how to shape beautiful sentences and construct quirky characters. I've always felt that sci-fi was about human stories as well as space and robots. This guy's work helped me realize that. The Toynbee Convector is quite short and doesn't exhibit a very obvious 'spooky' storyline his other stories have, but it's definitely one of my top favorites for its plot.
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It was haunted and it was alive. Unseen tides came and went in its machinery. Suns burned and moons hid their seasons in it. | ||
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Two things The Veldt made me do:
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A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one. | ||
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This is a short story inspired by Sara Teasdale's poem of the same title, There Will Come Soft Rains. It's a popular inclusion in English class textbooks, but nonetheless stuck with me. I was delighted to discover that my favorite author wrote a story based on this poem!
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...memory tapes glided under electric eyes. | ||