Can you help me identify a 25+ year-old short story that describes someone unable to cross a city street?
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posted by argonauta
on Nov 13, 2012 -
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I'm trying to come up with the name of a short story I read eight or ten years ago. It is a first-person narrative of the domestic life of a cynically detached man who lives with his wife and kid.
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posted by churl
on Jun 4, 2011 -
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Can you tell me the name and author of this story? Aliens contact earth, but they say they will only negotiate with humanity through [woman's name] - it is up to [woman] to decree if humanity is given vast boons of technology, or if it is destroyed by the aliens.
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posted by Sockpuppets 'R' Us
on Mar 26, 2011 -
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Help me find the name/author of a short story with the following plot:
human children are the work slaves of gremlins (goblins?), and made to do manual labor underground. Those with good behavior and who are getting older are "graduated" and told that they're being freed, but after a gremlin-only "ceremony," are killed for food instead.
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posted by NucleophilicAttack
on Feb 12, 2011 -
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Raymond Carver wrote a story in which a character writes a novel, or a story, about and/or titled "The beast that ate Cleveland," or something.
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posted by From Bklyn
on Jun 25, 2010 -
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Trying to track down a kid's sci-fi short story about a girl whose neighbour was an alien who could detach and 'fix' body parts.
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posted by Paragon
on May 12, 2010 -
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"What science fiction short story is this?" filter. One story about body switching/different perceptions, and another about mindreading.
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posted by anthy
on Feb 25, 2009 -
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ID That Story: novel (novella? short story?) in which a man is standing in line. Pretty much the entire story is his experience while waiting in line. It's a future/dystopia story. The man is waiting in line to make a complaint. He falls in love with the girl in front of him, though she's not allowed to turn and look at him. It's a parable about overpopulation. It was probably written in the 60s or 70s. That's all I remember.
posted by grumblebee
on Nov 20, 2008 -
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Short Story Suggestions: I need a short story for a specific lesson. Criteria inside.
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posted by gursky
on Oct 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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I read a short story a few years ago and would really like to find it again. A boy doesn't understand the complexities of the world -- such as how cars work. Suddenly, cars stop working.
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posted by Terminal Verbosity
on Nov 30, 2006 -
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I read a short story that was included as part of a compilation of horror/suspense stories about 10 years ago. I totally forgot the name of the story and really want to read it again.
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posted by suitcase
on Aug 8, 2006 -
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Abstract Thinking Filter: So I created this creature that travels by temperature instead of time, so to speak.
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posted by vanoakenfold
on Jul 18, 2006 -
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Has anyone written and published very brief, dense prose works akin to Borges'
ficciones, and are they any good?
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posted by jack_mo
on May 16, 2006 -
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Trying to identify a short story I read in some sort of Harper's or Atlantic type magazine a few years ago.
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posted by ITheCosmos
on May 15, 2005 -
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After watching "Dawn Of the Dead" the other night, I was reminded of a story I remember from my elementary school days. Naturally, I can't remember the title. Here's the catch - I can't remember if this was a novel we read in school, or some sort of PBS series we saw in school (After giving it a bit more thought, I suppose it could be both, eh?). All I remember is the following key plot point: all adults (I believe it was anyone over age 'n') die off. No zombies or anything. [A few more details inside]
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posted by adamkempa
on Nov 8, 2004 -
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It seems my memory isn't what it used to be. I need help remembering a short story title and a movie... [more inside, of course]
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posted by cedar
on May 10, 2004 -
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