Short Stories in the 2021 Tagset

[donutsweeper]

A compilation post for poems and short stories (available in either written or audio form) in the tagset with links on where to find them if possible. Please comment with ones I've missed as I'm sure there are a lot. Several canons have numerous translations available so if a different one is desired let me know, I can change the links or add additional versions.

Beowulf (Poem) (the Old English version, a modern translation and a different one.)

Bisclavret - Marie de France

Black Box - Jennifer Egan

The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter (Short Story)

Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid | Gold Tree and Silver Tree (Fairy Tale)

Cupid and Campaspe - John Lyly

Den lille Havfrue | The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen

Der Gevatter Tod | Godfather Death (Fairy Tale)

Die Gänsemagd | The Goose Girl

The Epic of Gilgamesh (translation one and two)

Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion... - Sandia Labs

Fabula 28 | Otos and Iphialtes - Hyginus (scroll down to § 28)

Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad

The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi - Pat Cadigan

Growing Things - Paul Tremblay (Short Story)

The Grownup - Gillian Flynn

Hänsel und Gretel | Hansel and Gretel (Fairy Tale)

Hazard (Short Story) - Georgette Heyer

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers - Alyssa Wong

Hymn to Demeter - Homer (translations by Hugh G.Evelyn-White (1914) and by Gregory Nagy)

Jackalope Wives Series - Ursula Vernon (Jackalope Wives and The Tomato Thief)

Jungfrau Maleen | Maid Maleen (Fairy Tale)

Kong Lindorm | Prince Lindworm (Danish Fairy Tale) (version nominator linked to in the evidence post)

Kubla Khan; or A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Lifecycle of Software Objects - Ted Chiang

The Matter of Seggri - Ursula K. Le Guin

Miss Mack - Michael McDowell

The Music of Erich Zann - Н. P. Lovecraft

The Price of Meat - K. J. Charles

The Proper Thing - Seanan McGuire (available on patreon feed only)

Rotkäppchen | Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman

Sun Moon Dust - Ursula Vernon

Superstition - Superstition_hockey (Original Work) (works can be found in this AO3 series and this one}

This Is New Gehesran Calling - Rebecca Fraimow

Unauthorized Bread - Cory Doctorow

The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

The Wedding Gig - Stephen King

What Ever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo - Gerald Kerch

Where the Sky is Silver and the Earth is Brass - Sonya Taaffe

Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker

Winter Solstice Camelot Station - John M. Ford

Wulf and Eadwacer (Old English version and a modern translation)

Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow (Three short stories - "Further Arguments in Support of Yudah Cohen’s Proposal to Bluma Zilberman", Shaina Rubin Keeps Her Head Under Circumstances Nobody Could Have Expected, and Gitl Schneiderman Learns to Live With Her In-Laws)

Comments

[lannamichaels]

Superstition has two characters nominated who don't appear in the main series linked above. For Bells Teixeira and Lawrence Haywood: Whatever You Love Best is, afaict, the best link for that.

[nodrog]

Uhm… If I may ask, how did Sandia Labs get in there?  It’s amusing, but why?

[donutsweeper]

I'm not sure what you're asking here. It's in the tagset and in previous years people asked I add it to the compiled short story posts so I have.

[donutsweeper]

I'm unfamiliar with this fandom, should I link both of series or just the one you've suggested?

[embraidery]

"Unauthorized Bread" :) https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

[donutsweeper]

Will add, thanks!!

[gement]

If the question is "how is it a story," consider reframing the listings as "Written works that are short enough to reasonably read in one sitting and not behind a paywall"; since the point is for people to be able to familiarize themselves with a new canon to possibly request or write it, the length is more important than fiction/non-fiction.

[likeadeuce]

Winter Solstice Camelot Station

[donutsweeper]

Will add, thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

There’s The Grownup - Gillian Flynn

- G

[donutsweeper]

Will add, thanks!

[lannamichaels]

Both of them. I've put in an ask on tumblr to the author about getting a single collection link for all of them, if possible.

[donutsweeper]

Okay, will add the link for the second series. Since it's topping out at around 300k words though, I'm not sure this really belongs on the short story list. If it's nommed (and I remember) I might not include it next year.

[lannamichaels]

Ha, yeah, definitely stretches the definition of "short".

[ninety6tears]

I believe “The Wedding Gig” by Stephen King was in there—-it can be found in the Skeleton Crew anthology.

Thank you for the organization!

[lannamichaels]

Are you adding links for purchase, as well as freely available? This promo post comment about This Is New Gehesran Calling - Rebecca Fraimow has purchase info.

[donutsweeper]

Will add, thanks!

[donutsweeper]

No, for simplicity's sake (with the exception of the patreon one) I'm only linking to free online versions and just listing other short stories that would require purchasing/acquiring in some other way since that would be tons more work and also those sorts of links probably vary by country.

[primeideal]

I'd seen this recced in a couple different places recently, thanks for the link! :D

[grayswandir]

Short story:

The Music of Erich Zann - Н. P. Lovecraft - https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.aspx

Poems

Kubla Khan; or A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan

The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning - https://www.bartleby.com/246/654.html

[likeadeuce]

Yes, I keep meaning to nominate i, and forgetting, so I'm glad it made it in this year.

[donutsweeper]

I'll add them, thanks!

[grayswandir]

I don't know if you'd also want to add "A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens" to the list -- it's a novella, under 30,000 words. There are online copies in a few places, but on a quick search this was the one I found that seemed to have the least terrible formatting: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(Dickens,_1843)

[donutsweeper]

Hmm, I wouldn't have considered it a short story but I hadn't realized it was only 30k words so I guess why not. I'll add it, thanks.

[nodrog]

Okay; thank you!  It seemed out of place, is all - though it was interesting in itself.  Mildly curious, me.