"Arena" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown, first published in the June 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. The members of the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science fiction stories published before the advent of the Nebula Awards , and as such it was included in ...

"The Star" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke.It appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955 and won the Hugo Award in 1956. It is collected in Clarke's 1958 book of short stories The Other Side of the Sky, and was reprinted in the January 1965 issue of Short Story International as the lead-off story.

"William Wilson" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale features a doppelgänger. It also appeared in the 1840 collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and has been adapted several times.

"Memento Mori" is a short story written by Jonathan Nolan and published in the March 2001 edition of Esquire magazine. It was the basis for the film Memento directed by his brother Christopher Nolan. The name refers to memento mori, a symbolic or artistic expression of the Latin phrase meaning "remember that you [have to] die."

Sweat is a short story by the American writer Zora Neale Hurston, first published in 1926, in the first and only issue of Fire!!.The story revolves around a washerwoman and her unemployed, insecure [citation needed] husband. The short story is 4743 words long, or around 15 pages. [citation needed]Robert E. Hemenway, the Chancellor of University of Kansas and the author …

"The Nose" (Russian: Нос Nos) is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on the grotesque and absurd, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, "The Nose" tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.

"A&P" is a tragicomic short story written by John Updike in 1961. M. Gilbert Porter called the titular A&P in Updike's story "the common denominator of middle-class suburbia, an appropriate symbol for [the] mass ethic of a consumer-conditioned society." According to Porter, when the main character chooses to rebel against the A&P he also rebels against this consumer …

"The Killers" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, published in Scribner's Magazine in 1927. After its appearance in Scribner's, the story was published in Men Without Women, Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Nick Adams Stories.The writer's depiction of the human experience, his use of satire, and the everlasting themes of death, friendship, and the purpose of life have …

"Taste" is a short story by Roald Dahl that was first published in the Dec 8 1951 New Yorker and the 1953 collection Someone Like You. Plot summary. There are six people eating a fine dinner at the house of Mike Schofield, a London stockbroker: Mike, his wife and daughter, an unnamed narrator and his wife, and a wine connoisseur, Richard Pratt.Pratt often makes small bets with …

"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse.The narrator describes this spirit as the agent that tempts a person to do things "merely because we feel we should not