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So Here Is A List of Readers & Writers Suggestions of Short Stories with Strong Plots - Some of which break all the rules for conventional plot structure but do it in such a way that writers admire the result. Hope this is mostly free of errors. Some were suggested multiple times. Enjoy. And feel free to drop an email to suggest additional stories for this list. Email: janbowmanwriter@gmail.com
James Baldwin - Sonny's Blues
Barthelme - The School
Andrea Barrett - The Littoral
Zone
Richard Bausch - All the Way
to Flagstaff
Bradbury - A Sound of
Thunder, All Summer in A Day, There Will Come Soft Rains
Kevin Brockmaier - The Ceiling
Robert Olen Butler -Jealous
Husband Returns as a Parrot
Raymond Carver - Cathedral
Samantha Chang - The
Unforgetting
John Cheever - Good Bye My
Brother
Chekhov - Gooseberries
Julio Cortazar - Continuity
of Parks
Andre Dubus - A Father's
Story
Richard Ford - Rock Springs
Tim Gautreaux - Little Frogs
in A Ditch
Joe Geha - Letters from
Phoenix
Gordimer - Some are Born to
Sweet Delight
Lauren Groff - Delicate
Edible Bird
Hemingway - The Short Happy
Life of Francis Mccomber, Hills Like White Elephants
Christie Hodgens - Elegies
for the Brokenhearted
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery
James Joyce - The Dead
Jhumpa Lahiri - A Temporary
Matter
Ben Marcus - The Moors
Elizabeth McCracken - Some
Have Entertained Angels, Unaware, The Goings-On of the World, Thunderstruck
Lorrie Moore - People Like
That Are the Only Ones Here, Canonical Babbling at Reed Onk, stories from Birds
of America & from Bark (Debarking)
Alice Munro - Vandals
Flannery O'Connor - The
Turkey, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Revelation
Julie Orringer - The Isabel
Fish from How to Breathe Under Water
Cynthia Orzik - The Shawl
George Saunders - Sea Oak,
The Falls, The Perfect Gerbil
Jim Shepard - Love and
Hydrogen
Leslie Marmon Silko - The Man
to Send Rain Clouds, Yellow Woman, Storyteller
June Spense - Missing Woman
Elizabeth Tallent - No One's
A Mystery
Vonnegut - The Package,
Harrison Bergeron
Will Weaver - A Gravestone
Made of Wheat
Eudora Welty - Why I Live at
the Post Office
Tobias Wolf - In the Garden
of North American
Wolf - A Bullet to the Brain
Richard Yates - A Really Good
Jazz Piano
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About Jan Bowman
Winner of the 2011 Roanoke Review Fiction Award, Jan's stories have been nominated
for Pushcart Prizes, Best American Short
Stories, and a Pen/O’Henry award. Glimmer Train named a recent
story as Honorable Mention in the November 2012 Short Story Awards for New
Writers.
A recent story was a
finalist for the 2013 Broad
River Review RASH Award for Fiction,
another story was a 2013 finalist in the Phoebe Fiction Contest; another was a 2012 finalist in
the “So
To Speak” Fiction Contest. Jan’s fiction has appeared in numerous publications including, Roanoke Review,
Big Muddy, The Broadkill Review, Third Wednesday, Minimus, Buffalo Spree (97),
Folio, The Potomac Review, Musings, Potato Eyes and others. She is working on
two collections of short stories while shopping for a publisher for a completed
story collection, Mermaids & Other
Stories. She has nonfiction publications in Trajectory and Pen-in-Hand. She writes a weekly blog of “Reflections” on the writing life and posts regular interviews
with writers and publishers. Learn
more at: www.janbowmanwriter.com or visit
blog: http://janbowmanwriter.blogspot.com
Facebook: janbowman.77@facebook.com
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