Short-Form Fiction and Poetry 2025

[embraidery]

Thank you to donutsweeper for finding many of these! Feel free to ask me to add canons that would fit. 


Ballad of the Mari Lwyd - Vernon Watkins 

Benlian - Oliver Onions 

Casting the Runes - M. R. James

The Changeling - psychomachia 

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 Day Before the Revolution - Ursula K. Le Guin 

Den lille Havfrue | The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen

Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad

FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns

For Sale: Baby Shoes Never Worn - Anonymous 

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti 

The Green Hills of Earth - Robert Heinlein (Short Story)

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers - Alyssa Wong 

Jorinde und Joringel | Jorinde and Joringel (Fairy Tale)

La Barbe bleue | Bluebeard - Charles Perrault 

Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke (short story collection)

The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges 

Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale)

Lucifer's Wife - Eleanor M. Ingram

mulberry down!! - Nicole Kornher-Stace 

Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad - M. R. James 

Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Seventy-Two Letters - Ted Chiang

Solitude - Ursula K. Le Guin

Sonata for Harp and Bicycle - Joan Aiken

A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman

There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm

Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas (Poem)

The Very Pulse of the Machine - Michael Swanwick 

Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker 

Wulf and Eadwacer (old English, modern English)

Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow (one, two, three)

Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne | East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Fairy Tale)

Comments

[sweetsorcery]

Could you add this one, please? It's a short story.

Lot No. 249 - Arthur Conan Doyle
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lot_No._249

[(Anonymous)]

(Fontainebleau posting - I don't have an account here)

Could you add the two short stories by China Mieville which I nominated: The Dowager of Bees, and Reports of Certain Events in London? The latter can be found online in the collection Looking For Jake on the internet archive.

Thanks.

[weird]

Could you please add The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)?

[larryhammer]

Missing:

• 赠答诗 - 金车美人 (弘农) | Poems Composed in Reply - Beautiful Woman in a Golden Carriage (Hong Nong) -- a translation is here


• Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker


• Her strong enchantments failing - A.E. Housman

(Do traditional ballads not count as short-form poetry for this list? Those I know of includes Allison Gross, Heer Halewijn, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, and Tam Lin.)

(ETA: For that matter, if collections like Ladies of Grace Adieu fit this list, shouldn't Puck of Pook's Hill and Stalky & Co also?)