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For about a fictional work too small to be called a [novel] or [novella] - usually less than 10-20 thousand words and no chapters. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the short story and its form in other media.. If you are looking for a particular anthology of short stories, use the [anthology-book] tag instead.
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Fantasy story from Dragon magazine involving a cinnabar mine
I know I could probably try trawling the online archives of the magazine, but this came to me while traveling and largely limited to my phone. This was a short story in an issue of Dragon magazine, pr …
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Short story involving television causing human memory to run out of storage space
I believe I read it as part of a short story anthology in the late 1980s or the early 1990s, although it's likely older. The plot involves a crisis where people all over the world are suddenly going c …
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Short story with an alcoholic being pursued by imaginary animals that other people can see
My wife and I passed by a winery with a pink elephant statue, and I cracked a joke about how this time, you knew you were drunk when you stopped seeing pink elephants, whereupon, I learned she'd never …
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Short story involving mutable weapons and a human impersonating an alien
I think I read this over a decade ago in high school (1990s approximately), probably as part of an anthology, although I have no idea which. A few salient details have stuck in my mind. The main chara …
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Trying to remember a short story (part of a universe anthology?) about a killer created by a...
I read this somewhere in the 1990s. I'm pretty sure it was a paperback book that had multiple stories. It was set somewhere in the future where the raising of babies was relegated to robots in factori …
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Short story about researchers disappearing from a base in Antarctica
I read this somewhere in the last decade, I think on a web page although it might have been in a short story collection. There's a group of researchers at a base in Antarctica and they start disappear …
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Short story about a man visiting a community for the deaf. Ends with them ascending to a hig...
I was reading this question and it made me suddenly remember another story I read in a book somewhere in the 90s to the early 2000s. Rather than being about a sighted man showing up in a community of …
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Collection of ghost stories as mysteries - Includes a story about a "debunked" piano-playing...
This was a young-adult book, paperback, I'm pretty sure. I read it somewhere between 1986 and 1990 in my elementary school, although it might have been older than that. There were a series of short st …
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Short Story about a man who does a perfect job the first time he tries each task
I'm pretty sure I read it either at the end of the 1990s or the very beginning of 2000. I think it was a first-person narration. The character involved learned that he could succeed at any task he put …
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Short Story where a Flu (cold?) virus causes humanity to regain fur
I've had some incredible success asking about golden age sci-fi stories here, so I figure I'll try another one. It was one of those stories without a real main character, just posing a change in human …
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Short story involving pieces of orange glass that seek out each other and defend themselves ...
I was reminded of this by Film about pieces of the sun tracking people thermally and incinerate them. I think it was an older story, one I read in an anthology somewhere in the early 90s (decent chanc …
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Short story about very hostile architecture in an office building
I think I read this in middle school to high school, which places it in the mid to late 90s. It was in English. The protagonist was realizing that a particular office building, I think in the United S …
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Short story where a man accidentally swaps half of his body with someone else in the future
I was browsing story-identification questions, when suddenly this one popped into my head, unfortunately with the details very vague. I'm pretty sure I read this in a short story collection some time …
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Short story about a husband-wife duo converting their flabby bodies to exaggerated ideals an...
So, since we've established in Meta that queries about NSFW stories are alright, I have one that's been bouncing around in my head, but which I can't search for right now. A husband and wife duo, obes …
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Short story involving a golfer trying to win the hand of a lady, only to find that her fathe...
I think I read this in the 1990s as part of a short story collection, but unfortunately, I don't remember anything about the rest of the book. The protagonist is a golfer, an extremely good one, and h …
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