Short Stories in the 2022 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 or if a different translation or version of a canon is preferred. Generally speaking, I've gone with writer's digest definition of a short story being under 30k words.

"Mysterious fog nothing to worry about" says weatherman who died 20 years ago - Mary Gillis

Black Box - Jennifer Egan

Casting the Runes - M. R. James

Charles Henry Higgensworth III Amazon.com Reviews

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)

The Deepwater Bride - Tamsyn Muir

Die sechs Schwäne | The Six Swans (Fairy Tale)

A Dry Quiet War - Tony Daniel

The Eve of St. Agnes - John Keats

Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad

Fitchers Vogel | Fitcher's Bird (Fairy Tale)

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti

Growing Things - Paul Tremblay (Short Story)

Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self - Isabel J. Kim

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son - J. R. R. Tolkien

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers - Alyssa Wong

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

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

L'Orsa | The She-Bear - Giambattista Basile

Le Horla | The Horla - Guy de Maupassant (original French here and read by Peter Lorre here)

Maid Maleen (Fairy Tale)

Měl jsem psa a kočku | From the Point of View of a Cat - Karel Čapek (google books scan, tumblr jpg or can be listened to on AO3 here.)

mulberry down!! - Nicole Kornher-Stace

oh Charlie Harper we love you get up - spit_kitten (AO3 Original Work)

Sir Orfeo (Poem) (wikipedia page with links to different versions)

SoftBank's Next 30-Year Vision (2010 Corporate PDF)

The Strangers (Creepypasta)

A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman

Thank You for Taking Care of Our Haunted and Enchanted Castle - Emma Marris

Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges (one pdf version, a second pdf version, an online version in both English and Spanish, and an annotated version)

The Vicars of Lower Squashby - Jared Pechacek (Twitter thread here)

We Are A Picturesque Small Town And We Refuse To Be The Setting For Your RomCom (McSweeney’s)

What Ever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo - Gerald Kerch

Where Are You Going Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates

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

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)

Смерть Кощея Бессмертного | The Death of Koschei the Deathless (Fairy Tale)

幽恨诗 | Poem of Hidden Resentment - 安邑坊女 | A Woman of Anyi Lane (yuletide promo post with various links)

掷裴武公诗 | A Poem Thrown at Martial Duke Pei - 介胄鬼 | An Armored Ghost (yuletide promo post with various links)

虎丘石壁鬼 | Three Poems by a Ghost on a Stone Wall in Huqiu (yuletide promo post with various links)


Children's Picture Books:
Hippos Go Berserk! - Sandra Boynton

Moo Baa La La La! - Sandra Boynton

Sweetest Kulu - Celina Kalluk (read aloud youtube version here)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

What Is It? - Margaret Hillert (scanned version on tumblr here)

Comments

[lannamichaels]

Thank you so much for organizing these ♥ And especially for finding ones I was making notes to try to find!

[donutsweeper]

Glad it's helpful :)

[(Anonymous)]

There's also "mulberry down!!" by Nicole Kornher-Stace (which they refer to as a short story, though it has also been called a novella. somewhere in the middle.) available for free here: http://nicolekornherstace.com/mulberry-down/

[donutsweeper]

Added, thank you!

[cirque]

Ooo thanks for this, what a healthy looking list.

[donutsweeper]

Hope you find it useful :)

[hiddencait]

DYING WITH HER CHEER PANTS ON - Seanan McGuire is a short story anthology if that helps! Only one story really has to be read for all but one of the characters nominated - "Tryouts" which sets the scene for the "current" squad and most of how the worldbuilding works! :D

[donutsweeper]

I considered adding that but the book is 300 pages and that is what is in the tagset, rather than one of the short stories within it so I've left it off.

[hiddencait]

Totally makes sense. I just thought I'd mention it if people were looking for short story type items :)

And man thanks for the round up tho - I just added like... 3 things to my possible offer list!

[trialia]

Is "under 300 pages" the criterion you're working with? If so, James White's Sector General series probably qualifies here, too. All the stories are novella length or shorter, even the ones in individual volumes of their own.

[donutsweeper]

As stated in the post, under 30k words, which is well under 300 pages.

[trialia]

I must have missed that when I read it, but I appreciate your clarification. The short stories certainly fall under that, but whether the novellas do, is harder to determine, since they aren't available in ebook so far as I can tell. The print is small, too, so the usual idea of 500 words per page may not apply. If I determine the answer one way or the other, I'll let you know.

[primeideal]

Sir Orfeo--not sure if there's a canonical translation/preferred version, but here are some links to various version on Wikipedia

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius--not sure exactly how legal this link is, but translation here

[(Anonymous)]

Other sources for Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: here (https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-Tl%C3%B6n-Uqbar-Orbius-Tertius.pdf), here (https://www.sjc.edu/application/files/1915/0644/0603/Santa_Fe_Parent_Seminar_Reading.pdf) and here (https://interglacial.com/pub/tlon.html).

[donutsweeper]

Added, thank you!

[yhlee]

Thank you for this!

[donutsweeper]

Hope you find it useful!

[dr_zook]

Thank you for compiling this super handy list!

Nominated Le Horla | The Horla is a (horror) short story by Guy de Maupassant. The full French text can be read here, an English translation can be read here, and for anyone inclined: Peter Lorre told the tale in 1947 for a NBC radio show, you can listen to it here. :D

[donutsweeper]

Added, thanks!

[larryhammer]

Sweet. Thank you!

(Hmm, poems are thin on the ground this year.)

[nonesensed]

This is super helpful, thank you so much for your hard work! <3

[larryhammer]

Did you want to include traditional ballads? The tagset also has

John Barleycorn (Traditional Ballad)
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (Traditional Ballad)
Long John Moore | Long John Old John and Jackie North (Traditional Ballad)
William Taylor (Traditional Ballad)

[donutsweeper]

Ballads in the 'music in the 2022 yuletide tagset' post here.

[larryhammer]

Ah, gotcha.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for compiling these!

This one is in the tags as well:
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates
https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/oates_going.pdf

[donutsweeper]

Added, thanks!

[innie_darling]

Thank you for doing all this work! I believe Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti is also in the tagset this year.

[donutsweeper]

Added, thank you!

[lirin_lirilla]

This is a great list! Nervous System - Rosalie Moffett is poetry. (It's a collection of poetry that weaves various topics together into a single narrative, though I have seen at least one review that considered it to be a single book-length poem. It's maybe ~10k so well under your word count cutoff if that applies to poetry.)

I don't believe it's available online, just in book form. The Amazon listing has a preview of the first 6 poems.

[donutsweeper]

I don't really think this qualifies, Sorry. It may be poetry, but since it's a whole, 96 page book collection of them it doesn't really slot into the 'short, read in a brief sitting' feel that I intended when putting together this list.

[trialia]

I somehow forgot to mention it, but there's also Tamsyn Muir's novelette The Deepwater Bride, 8453 words in length - that one is available in the July/August 2015 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, which can be downloaded and read for free by any Kindle Unlimited subscriber (£7.99/month for up to 20 borrowed books at a time, with swaps that can be made at any point, and no fixed subscription).

[donutsweeper]

Added, thanks!

[trialia]

Thank you.

For more ways to find the work, it's also available in The Long List Anthology Vol. 2, which is available less expensively than the original work or a KU sub, for £3.79, and has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, and Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction.