Short Stories on Wednesdays is a weekly event hosted here, at Breadcrumb Reads. The purpose of this event is to encourage people to read at least one short story a week. There are no limits, of course! If you have made a post on the short stories you’ve read this week, please do leave a link in the comments section. If you haven’t made a post, it does not matter. I’d still love to know what you’ve been reading. Just put the titles down in the comments section.
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I nearly missed this week’s post as well! I’ve been so caught up with running around and cleaning up after my new pup that almost all my reading these last few days have been in the few moments I get to disappear into the washroom. 
So, yeah, I’m really trying to say that I haven’t done any short story reading this past week, and I’m feeling too tired to read one now. I’m in the mood to just aimlessly browse around the net and mess a bit with the blog layout.
However, I would love to know what you folk have been reading this week.
This week has been Neil Gaiman week for me. I listened to him read the entire ‘The Graveyard Book’ http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx which is worth checking out because its a pretty fun story, think what Mowgli would have been like had he been raised not in a jungle but in a graveyard. Its a book but each chapter is like its own self contained short.
I would also recommend going here http://fora.tv/2006/10/02/Neil_Gaiman#comments_section where the stories in the talk are in chapters and you can listen to two wonderful short ‘poems’ called ‘The Day The Saucers Came’ which is hilarious and ‘Instructions’ which details what to do should you find yourself in a fairy tale. While there treat yourself to ‘October Is In The Chair’ which Gaiman wrote in hopes of making others feel how Ray Bradbury made him feel.
I’ve read a half dozen or so other shorts as well this week including ‘To Build A Fire’ by Jack London, ‘Young Goodman Brown’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’, Kate Chopin’s ‘A Pair of Silk Stockings’ and ‘The Last Rung on The Ladder’ by Stephen King. I’d recommend all of these if you have the time, and if you have dismissed King especially in the past you may want to pick up a collection of his short stories and you may find yourself quite surprised at how wonderful his short fiction can be.
I’ve been seeing a great many posts on Gaiman’s short stories lately. Thanks for the links!…I’ll check them out as soon as I am free to put my speakers on.
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I’ve never read King before. I’m not sure why. If I do get the chance to try a short story by him I’ll give it a go.
Hello Risa!
I was led to your blog – and to this weekly feature specifically – by Che at From Kafka to Kindergarten.
I am a fairly regular reader of short stories, and have been reading “one per week” all year. (A project I think I will continue in 2012 as well)
This week’s story was a favorite of mine, “The Brushwood Boy” by Rudyard Kipling. I posted about it today at https://bibliophilica.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/1722/
I also re-read Agatha Christie’s “The Red Signal” this morning, as I intend to write a post about it to, but needed to refresh my memory.
I look forward to hearing about what all of the participants in this feature read this week!
-Jay
Hello Jay! Welcome!
I’m off to discover what your thoughts were on Kipling. I haven’t read much Kipling, but I like him so far!
Hi Risa, I’m back after a bit of an unscheduled blogging break! I’ve been working my way very slowly through “Stories”, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, and this week reviewed The Stars are Falling by Joe R. Lansdale.
http://sophiasbookblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/short-story-stars-are-falling-by-joe-r.html
Hey Sophia! Welcome back!
This week I read and posted on one short story-”Seven Lives to Repay Our Country” by Edward Carrpenter. It is set on the island of Saipan during tthe final battle in which the Americans retake the islands. Written by a major in the US Marines, it brilliantly tells the story from the point of view of seven ordinary Japanese soldiers
The Other’s point of view? Sounds interesting…
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Hello, Risa. This week I have read “A doctor’s visit” by Anton Chekhov. An interesting story that I read for the first time, set in the 1800s where the differences between social status and educational levels are evident and quite important in this period. I enjoyed reading it.
Hi,
this week I have read “A respectable woman by Kate Chopin. An interesting short story where the author show her strong influence of her life in Louisiana. The story have a French flair and concentrates and put emphasis on woman’s life (Mrs. Baroda) and her struggles to keep the appearances within the boundaries of a 19th century society.
Sounds interesting and similar to the struggle of women writers of that time! I haven’t read anything by Kate Chopin. I should keep this short story in mind. Thank you for sharing!