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"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut will always have a place in my heart. I also quite liked a Ray Bradbury short story that I believe was called "The Homecomi
by beardbound 6y ago
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut will always have a place in my heart. I also quite liked a Ray Bradbury short story that I believe was called "The Homecoming". However I had to look it up. I think that was it.
I used to love short stories, but I don't see as much of them anymore. I think that some of that has been swallowed by the more serial novellas that I see on platforms like kindle unlimited. I've long felt that this is incentivized by the ways that the platform pays writers (percentage of the book read). It encourages writers to write shorter gripping stories. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I've been going through quite a bit of great pulp fiction recently, but it is a bit of a departure from the more traditional novel or short story.