Can you recommend books, movies, or short stories that involve academics in supernatural peril?
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posted by zoetrope
on Apr 11, 2013 -
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Okay, so I've composed a bunch of music to go with selections from a book of short stories, and things are coming together and I've started to perform & record them. They're mostly 1-2 minutes and the idea is that I'd record myself reading them along with the music; think of something along he lines of Ken Nordine's work. Anyways, it's just something I've been doing for fun, creativity for the sake of creativity and all that. But as it's finally coming together, I have an urge, naturally, to share it with people, at which point legal considerations arise.
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posted by mingo_clambake
on Mar 13, 2013 -
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In the last 9 years, I've written a Russian novel's worth of blog comments. Can you help me channel this energy into personal writing projects? NOTE : I am NOT interested in blogging.
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posted by Afroblanco
on Feb 12, 2013 -
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Recommend me up some short stories. Inside, I'll tell you what I likes and what I don't likes.
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posted by !Jim
on Nov 15, 2012 -
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What are other modern fiction titles with superlatives? I'm thinking of "Everything is Illuminated" and "Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever".
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posted by whimsicalnymph
on Oct 31, 2012 -
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Help identifying a short story I originally read in an Isaac Asimov "Science Fiction" magazine.
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posted by dotgirl
on Sep 16, 2012 -
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What short stories have further defined your conceptual understanding of "the meaning of life?"
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posted by lobbyist
on Jun 3, 2012 -
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Help me find more speculative/science fiction novels like Geoff Ryman's The Child Garden and Michael Swanwick's Stations of the Tide!
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posted by overglow
on Apr 20, 2012 -
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Dear Metafilter: can you suggest any short stories that fit a general theme of post-apocalyptic stories, but which are out of copyright/public domain?
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posted by reynir
on Jan 22, 2012 -
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Short story collection(s) identification; space succubi, store brand cheetos, and grape soda.
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posted by nomisxid
on Oct 7, 2011 -
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What are some interesting, unique, different and effective ways to teach figurative language to high schoolers?
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posted by guster4lovers
on Oct 3, 2011 -
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Which novels and short stories, from any genre, since WWII, have been the most influential on prose style in "literary fiction"?
posted by shivohum
on Aug 26, 2011 -
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I'm looking for fiction that is short(ish) and has happiness as a theme. By happiness, I mean any of the following: factors influencing happiness, someone gaining/losing happiness, pondering the meaning of happiness, money causing/preventing happiness, thinking something will make you happier and it does or doesn't, etc. Snowflake details inside.
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posted by guster4lovers
on Aug 19, 2011 -
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My partner was telling me about a fascinating bit of erotica he read sometime within the past 15 or so years about a society where it was acceptable to have sex in the open, but eating was something shameful you did in private. He can't remember who wrote it or where he read it, though; can you help us find it?
posted by rhiannonstone
on Jun 28, 2011 -
24 answers
Help find me a Book of Short Stories that you could use as introductions for various talks/discussions/presentations...
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posted by fozzie33
on May 26, 2011 -
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I like short fiction with a strong sense of place. I particularly like reading said fiction while visiting its setting. I'm going to be in Kentucky soon. What might I want to read while I'm there?
posted by .kobayashi.
on May 15, 2011 -
12 answers
Bookfilter: I'm looking for authors (and especially short story collections) in the vein of Italo Calvino, Etgar Keret, and Haruki Murakami - playful, slightly absurd, and a little bit surreal.
posted by devilsbrigade
on Apr 3, 2011 -
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I am looking for recommendations for a relevant short story to read to children on Take Your Child to Work day. Our activity theme is "mapping your future."
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posted by WeekendJen
on Mar 1, 2011 -
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Looking for a vaguely remembered book, published (we believe) in the last 10 years.
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posted by jrb223
on Nov 3, 2010 -
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ShortStoryFilter: I'm looking for the name of a short story that (probably) appeared in a pulp horror collection from a good number of years back... Arid country, twin princes, Prince A locks B at bottom of a well, B escapes, pulls identifying tooth from (now king) A's mouth, locks A at bottom of well.
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posted by RolandOfEld
on Oct 20, 2010 -
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What is the single best short story you've read in the last ten years?
Preferrably published in the last ten years, bonus points if the writer is doing something innovative or exciting.
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posted by surenoproblem
on Aug 28, 2010 -
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I want to read new crime fiction and/or mystery short stories. Where should I look?
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posted by dersins
on Aug 18, 2010 -
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Please recommend some witty poetry and/or prose in the same vein as Dorothy Parker and Wendy Cope!
posted by whats-in-a-name
on Dec 20, 2009 -
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Having recently discovered Anais Nin's
Delta of Venus and
Little Birds, I'm looking for classy, somewhat highbrow, non-amateur, published erotic literature along the same lines.
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posted by Lush
on Aug 7, 2009 -
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I'd like recommendations for short stories that are strange, humorous, or have a surprising twist.
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posted by Rinku
on Mar 8, 2009 -
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John Updike's death reminded me that I have a book of his short stories. Which ones should I read first?
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posted by ocherdraco
on Jan 30, 2009 -
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I'm looking for a short mystery stories book I read in a library. One of the stories is where a character comes up a flight of stairs and thinks he sees something (a murder?) in someone's apartment, but it's actually some kind of mirrored reflection of a mirrored reflection of someone through a window across the street. The book/collection was published before 1996 and if I remember correctly, was all short story mysteries of 5 to 20 pages.
posted by cashman
on Nov 25, 2008 -
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Short Story Filter. I remember a short story that I read in a sci-fi story anthology back in the mid 90's that I haven't been able to find since.
There are a group of three boys, one of them substantially younger, who play out in a big field. One of the older boys tells the younger boy, as a joke, that if you look through the hole in the middle of a stone, you can see into another world of some kind. Mysterious circumstances then occur.
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posted by lockle
on Oct 23, 2008 -
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What sci-fi market might be a good match for my shorts? And, in what fashion should I attempt to sell them?
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posted by Netzapper
on Aug 12, 2008 -
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What's the process by which published fiction gets adapted into comic book form?
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posted by overglow
on May 25, 2008 -
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It's time for another round of "Name That Book!" Looking for the title of a compilation of horror stories from the 1980s or 1990s.
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posted by bijou
on Dec 1, 2007 -
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What is your favorite book or DVD series about Mexico? Particularly historical fiction or contemporary fiction. Preferably in English, but if you have a great recommendation in Spanish, I'd take that too! My grandmother thanks you!
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posted by barnone
on Nov 27, 2007 -
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I'm trying to recall a science fiction time travel short story set in a Paris cafe. The story begins when one man overhears another speaking in "antique Latin." I know that's not much to go on, but I'm hoping those few facts might ring a bell for some sci-fi loving askmetafilter genius!
posted by garyduke
on Jul 24, 2007 -
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Do you recognize this short story, possibly written by David Mamet? A Japanese couple scrimps and saves so they can incrementally improve their lives, and they go to a shopping mall/set of stores for fun, where they purchase candies/cookies that look like 1000 or 10000 or 1000000 yen. (More inside.)
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posted by Slap Factory
on Jun 20, 2007 -
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