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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2022-10-12 09:41 am

Short Stories in the 2022 Tagset

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)
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[personal profile] hiddencait 2022-10-12 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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!