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Could anyone recommend short stories please?

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morelippy · 24/04/2023 23:14

Various life stresses, mainly a significant bereavement seems to have robbed me of my ability to concentrate enough to read. I've been an avid reader for 50 years and miss it!

I wonder if short stories would help get me back in to it..

Any genre other than fantasy really

Willing to give anything gripping a go.

Thanks

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JackOBothSides · 25/04/2023 14:19

Saki
Roald Dahl
Oscar Wilde
All good diverting short stories

Latenightreader · 25/04/2023 11:51

I love Katherine Mansfield's short stories. Her writing is beautiful. I second Alice Munro, and I have a secret love for Maeve Binchy - more substance than lots of people assume. Agatha Christie wrote some great short stories, some featuring Poirot or Miss Marple, others stand alone.

bigbadbarry · 25/04/2023 11:48

bigbadbarry · 25/04/2023 11:47

I just read the new Margaret Atwood ‘old babes in the wood’. I’m not usually a fan of short stories but I really enjoyed these

… although some of them do touch on bereavement so maybe not the best for you right now

bigbadbarry · 25/04/2023 11:47

I just read the new Margaret Atwood ‘old babes in the wood’. I’m not usually a fan of short stories but I really enjoyed these

Cameraduck · 25/04/2023 11:46

penelope lively and also Saki stories are great

GalileoHumpkins · 25/04/2023 11:44

I'm not a big fan of short stories but read two recently that I really enjoyed
Medusa by Jessie Burton
Galatea by Madeline Miller
Retelling of ancient Greek myths with a feminist slant.

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morelippy · 25/04/2023 07:48

Thank you! Will take a look

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 25/04/2023 01:52

Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Townsend Warner. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster stories. Old-fashioned & comforting.

SammyScrounge · 25/04/2023 00:41

Alice Munro is an excellent writer

MsAmerica · 24/04/2023 23:23

Why not get an anthology of a bunch of different writers? I've sure you could find some that are specifically by women, or specifically 20th century - or maybe specifically comic ones, which might perk you up.