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BooksByEssie
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If you are looking for a collection of diverse short stories try efiction magazine. Its a monthly online publication. efictionmag.com
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Thanks BooksByEssie~
I'd never heard of this site....is it exclusively for Kindle?
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Molecularblonde wrote:Thanks BooksByEssie~
I'd never heard of this site....is it exclusively for Kindle?
MB
It actually will be available for subscription via kindle store in the next few days. If you check the kindle store on Saturday it should be there. I can let you know via this thread when its up. You can read the back issues on their website however.

I actually have a few book reviews being published in this months edition.

They have some wonderful writers that contribute short stories each month.
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Bravo, you must be thrilled!!! :D

We have a Kindle, but it's still in the box. I will download the most recent issue to read on the computer.
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Molecularblonde wrote:Bravo, you must be thrilled!!! :D

We have a Kindle, but it's still in the box. I will download the most recent issue to read on the computer.
I am absolutely thrilled. My first publication.

I have a Nookcolor and my husband has the original Nook (my hand-me-down). Hope you like the Kindle as much as I like my Nook.

I hope you like the magazine, too. Remember to check back for this month's edition on the Kindle store. :)
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I don't know what a "nook" is, but it sounds cool. I like the Kindle, but a part of me likes the tactile feel of a book, just old-fashioned I suppose.

Anyway, I have the site bookmarked, it looks great.
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I know I've posted here before, but I'm too lazy to check whether I've mentioned Asimov and Bradbury.
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I love Roald Dahl's short stories, he's got a really unique sense of humour and the ending of the books are always so unexpected - even when I reread some of his stories later on, I'm still surprised at the endings :lol:
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Smoke Ghosts & Other Outré Tales (Kindle, Amazon) is an amazing new short story collection. The author has been compared to Kerouac, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and even some to Burroughs.

I also like reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Collected Short Stories.
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Try Katheryn Mansfield..Bliss and other stories...she's dead so it's easy to get her collected short stories.!
Also, Guy de Maupassant's quite famous...
And I love P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves..stories.
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Post by Maud Fitch »

Every so often when I want a short story fix, I dig out my Ruth Rendell Collected Stories omnibus. There are 27 crime stories under three headings The Fallen Curtain, Means Of Evil and The Fever Tree and include Inspector Wexford’s psychological murder mysteries.

Rendell has written a lot of other thrillers but her characterisations, plot, sense of place and timing all come under the banner of excellent. Most were written over 30 years ago (no gadgetry!) and Rendell is now in her eighties. She's said to be good friends with PD James; although they are similar authors, I'd prefer to read Rendell.
"Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts" Foster Meharny Russell
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My favourite crime writer is Ed McBain.
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If you have not read any of Roald Dahls books, you need too! His books bring back plenty of childhood memories!
If you liked any of these movies, check out the books!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Compete Adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka
Fantastic Mr. Fox
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda


Other books that I loved by Roald Dahl are
The BFG
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
The Witches
CHECK HIM OUT
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