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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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Short story: boy who speaks a dead language
Perhaps “Dead Languages” from the short story collection Rise by L. Annette Binder?
From a review:
In “Dead Languages,” two parents are baffled by their young son, who
speaks dead languages as …
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Trying to identify a short story of missed opportunities
"Requiem" by Robert A. Heinlein (1940), maybe? Reads as a sequel to his book, The Man Who Sold the Moon, but was actually published before it.
The story centers around Delos David Harriman, the le …
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The owner of a newspaper in the future describes his day as he effectively runs the world
I do believe Stewart also posted his question on Quora.com, and found the answer to his own question there, but I'll repost here for the sake of reference and also just in case, since I found the stor …
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Name of story with video phones and personal contact is embarrassing
Maybe The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster. Published in 1909.
The story describes a world in which most of the human population has
lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each indi …
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Stamps that can almost instantly deliver letters or packages to any destination
Maybe perhaps "The Love Letter" by Jack Finney, first published in 1959? It has some similarity.
Plot summary:
In 1959, Jake Belknap, a young, lonely, single man in Brooklyn, New
York is looking for …
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Please help identify a story about an ugly bird that would die of shame when someone looked ...
Maybe The Olverung by Steven Woodworth (2008)?
It was published in the December 2008 issue of Realms of Fantasy.
Finally we have “The Olverung” by Stephen Woodworth. This piece is
historical fantasy …
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70s(?) sci-fi story about astronauts using their knowledge of evolution to figure out they'r...
Pretty sure it's Collecting Team by Robert Silverberg, alternate title Catch 'em All Alive!, first published in 1956.
Curiously I was led to this answer by another question/answer on this site, though …
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Short story with a woman made immortal by nanotechnology, sees end of Earth
I think this story could be "World Without End" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, published in 2010, in two different Mammoth books: The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF and The Mammoth Book of the End of th …
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Short story involving time travel
Having just read through it, it does indeed seem to be “The Fort Moxie Branch” by Jack McDevitt. It was first published in 1988 in a short story collection called Full Spectrum and was nominated for a …
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Short sci-fi story: aliens regret setting Earth's destruction in motion
I think I found it, though the original author remains anonymous, and even the title is a mystery, as it is referred to as"The Gift of Mercy" or "We Know You Are Out There" and even "We Made a Mistake …
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Story where someone gets disconnected from computers for cybercrime
This is A Perfect Fit by Isaac Asimov.
From http://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4319939/A-perfect-fit (I think this is the full text)
Punishment for cybercrime:
Bradstone leaned forward in his chair …
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