Short Stories in the 2024 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 (or more information about 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.

18 Foot Leash - Porpentine Charity Heartscape

The Attic - A. M. Burrage

Art in the Blood - Brian Stableford

Ballad of the Mari Lwyd - Vernon Watkins

Better Living Through Algorithms - Naomi Kritzer (also has an audio version available)

Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black - Isabel J. Kim (also has an audio version available)

Casting the Runes - M. R. James

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

The Court Magician - Sarah Pinsker (also has an audio version available)

The Cthulhu Navy Wife - Sandra McDonald

Darling and the Cinderella Club - Anonymous (AO3 work)

De vilde Svaner | The Wild Swans - Hans Christian Andersen

Doctor Eszterhazy Stories - Avram Davidson (see promo post comment)

Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad

FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns

Farmer Giles of Ham - J.R.R. Tolkien

A Guide for Young Ladies Entering the Service of the Fairies - Rosamund Hodge

Growing Things - Paul Tremblay

Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self - Isabel J. Kim (also has an audio version available)

Hauntings - Vernon Lee (characters nominated are from two of the short stories, A Wicked Voice and Oke of Okehurst, available in the collection via Gutenberg here)

I Am AI - Ai Jiang

Incompetent Time-Travelling Saxophone Haters (Tumblr Post)

The International Society of Infallible Detectives - Carolyn Wells (set of five short stories, available to borrow here from archive.org; three of the stories available by themselves: The Adventure of the Lost Baby, The Adventure of the Mona Lisa (HathiTrust's scanned version and an audio version), The Adventure of the Clothes-line)

Jorinde und Joringel | Jorinde and Joringel (Fairy Tale)

Kilmeny - James Hogg

Lake of Souls - Ann Leckie (Novelette)

Lucifer's Wife - Eleanor M. Ingram

Midnights - Rainbow Rowell

Miss Mack - Michael McDowell (also has an audio version available)

mulberry down!! - Nicole Kornher-Stace

The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde - Mary de Morgan

oh Charlie Harper we love you get up - spit_kitten (AO3 Work, originally posted here)

Rude Litterbox Space - Mary Robinette Kowal

Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Seventy-Two Letters - Ted Chiang (pdf, audio version)

The Story of Conn-Eda (Folk Tale) (or pdf of scanned book here)

A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman

A Tale of Future Crime (cohost post) - jackapedia

There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm

The Thirteenth Dancer - Leah Cypess

Thurnley Abbey - Perceval Landon

Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges

To Sail Beyond the Botnet - Suzanne Palmer (also has an audio version available)

Top 5 Rat Movies I Made Up - John Paul Brammer: Legends of the Great Below (newsletter with plot descriptions/short reviews of the made up movies)

The Vampyre - John William Polidori (audio and DLable annotated text in various versions here)

The Very Pulse of the Machine - Michael Swanwick (also has audio version available)

Wikihistory - Desmond Warzel

Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker

Wulf and Eadwacer (old English version, modern English translation one, two, three)

A Year and A Day in Old Theradane - Scott Lynch

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, the last two have audio versions available as well)

赠答诗 | Poems Composed in Reply - 金车美人 (弘农) | Beautiful Woman in a Golden Carriage (Hong Nong) promo post comment with links to original and translations

Comments

[hekateras]

Probably not needed now that it's been added but mentioning it anyway:

A potential source of confusion is that There Is No Antimemetics Division is also the name of the entire series (I think?) published in print, which is over 30k. But generally speaking, because of the format, when I and others nominate it for exchanges, we don't expect people to have read every story in the series, especially since it includes work by various authors aside qntm, etc (this being the SCP Foundation wiki). The "core" stories, as I said, are well within length.

Thank you for adding it!