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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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Landed on a hot and cold planet, short life spans
I came across Frost and Fire by Ray Bradbury,
Placed there by a past rocket ship that crashed, the people of the storied land are within sight of another rocket ship on a distant mountain platea …
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Story about a man considering leaving an android place-holder while sneaking out on his wife
I came across Marionettes, Inc, a story from Ray Bradbury's short story collection called The Illustrated Man.
Synopsis:
The characters are Braling and Smith and their wives. Braling's wife was quite …
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Beehive in body short story
I Am Not I by G. V. Anderson, published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2017. You can read the story courtesy of PodCastle: Part 1 and Part 2
A review from Goodreads details …
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Short story about humanity sending out (radio waves) signals and being answered with a warning
Thanks to Jenayah's edit on my spelling of 'quiet' I had a second try at Googling and found this creepypasta called 'Radio Silence'. Unfortunately not a story from a famous author like I had thought, …
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Short story about alien machine that can answer any question
Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley appears to tick most of your boxes. It's also an (unaccepted) answer to this question. It can be found and read it at Project Gutenberg (thanks to user14111 f …
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Science fiction story set in true Bath about time travel
It is called Eden Sounding by John Clute, from the Other Edens II and Stay collections and can be found online in Stay by John Clute on Google Books
There are mice mentioned, only travelling at night …
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A short fiction about angels appearing and causing both miracles and disasters
Sounds like Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang. It is a novelette that was released in 2001.
Quoting from Wikipedia, emphasis on the points that match the question:
The story is set in a world …
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Short story about time travel and refugees from the future
I am pretty sure Radiant Doors by Michael Swanwick is the story you're looking for. It was published in the September 1998 edition of Asimov's Science Fiction. The story, and a few more of Michael Swa …
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Story about a man bringing nanomachines from the future to save his lover
Sounds like it could be The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler.
It has Nano-technology that heal people's ailments:
She started to climb the Mountain, but it was too much for her: she huffed and puffe …
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1950s short story where the universe is running out of space to store data
MS Fnd in a Lbry by Hal Draper? It was published in 1961 so near about the time-frame you recall.
There are no "nudged atoms", but there is mention of "nudged quanta":
Out of his work, ably supported …
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Short scary stories anthology book - Swore on a Dead Cat
This is The Fat Man by Joe R. Lansdale. It's appeared in several anthologies from 1987 to 2021. If you read this in 2010 you most likely read the collection titled: Bumper Crop.
It involves a fat man, …
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A story of a child who discovers the joy of walking to school after his teleporter breaks
This is It's Such a Beautiful Day by Isaac Asimov. First published in 1955 in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, it's available to read online thanks to the Internet Archive.
Summary per Wikipedia:
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