I’m looking for short stories or novelettes to read, preferably around 20-50 pages. Something I can finish in a day but that’s not too short. Any genre works. Thank you!

  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I assume other genres probably have them, but for scifi there’s a lot anthologies that cover short stories. I like them that the stories can be read in a session, sometimes multiple. One of the shortest I’ve seen is Isaac Asimovs postcard story, fits ona postcard!

    Scifi that was the only way to get published way back when, scifi was seen as too risky for long form printing.

    In scifi, it’s even goes further into themes so you can pick what you like. Examples would be ghost stories, or time travel, detectives, space ships only. Stuff like that.

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I love a novella. I didn’t look up page counts but here’s some I remember being shorter and worth reading

    • Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
    • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
    • Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dosktoevsky
    • The Death of Ivan Illych by Lev Tolstoy
    • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
    • The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
    • The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
    • The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
    • The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  • apftwb@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Clarksworld

    Monthly SciFi short story publication. Each month they release about 6-8 short stories. Its free on the website, but if you want the epub or physical copy, it costs a few bucks.

    https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

    Clarkesworld is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in October 2006. Each issue contains interviews, thought-provoking articles, and between six and eight works of original fiction. Our fiction is also available in ebook editions/subscriptions, audio podcasts, print issues, and in our annual print/ebook anthologies. Clarkesworld has been recognized with a World Fantasy Award, three Hugo Awards, and a British Fantasy Award. Our fiction has been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, BSFA, Sturgeon, Locus, Shirley Jackson, Ditmar, Aurora, Aurealis, WSFA Small Press, and Stoker Awards.

    The cover art is also very good imo