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A short story is a piece of prose fiction.It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
"I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" is a military science fiction short story by Isabel Fall, published on 1 January 2020 in Clarkesworld Magazine. The story relates the experience of Barb, a woman whose gender has been reassigned to " attack helicopter " so as to make her a better pilot.
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"The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.
The story follows Henry through the 60's, while he was a student, and in the 70's, after he became a professor. It follows him as he investigates the murders in both time periods while also reflecting on his time in an orphanage, after the death of his mother and brother in a car accident while they were driving through a similar strawberry spring.
"Black Destroyer" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in Astounding SF in July 1939. It has been marked as the story that represents the start of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. [1] "Black Destroyer" was combined with several other short stories to form the novel The Voyage of the ...
"Rabbit Test" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2022, [1] the 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Award, [2] and the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [3] [a] Locus found the story to be "worthwhile reading", but noted that "some may find it too didactic". [5] Library Journal called it "frighteningly prescient". [6]