Tag: speculative fiction

• 30 Stories, Day 29: The Last Question

  In one of the last three stories of my thirty-day reading challenge, (I’ll be doing a bonus #31 to round out the month), my mind is once again most awesomely blown away—this time by a famous sci-fi author, though one I had never read prior to today. A great, happy shout out to 1 Story […]

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  Julie Israel

  29 January, 2013

  Reading, short story, Writing

  fiction, Isaac Asimov, speculative fiction, Stephen King writing as telepathy, The Last Question, writers, Writing

• 30 Stories, Day 27: Harrison Bergeron

  If I could say one thing about Harrison Bergeron, it would be this: Vonnegut doesn’t mess around. Many thanks to I’m All Booked, who commented on my last Forum Friday post: “What is your favorite short story?” for the suggestion. After 27 of 30 short stories, I will happily concede that Harrison Bergeron has been […]

  Julie Israel

  27 January, 2013

  Reading, short story, Writing

  30 short stories in 30 days, dystopian fiction, fiction, Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut, speculative fiction, writers, Writing

• 30 Stories, Day 18: The Happy Man

  Ahahaha, so remember how I said after “Nightingale” and “A Good Man” I was going to read something more light-hearted? Remember the glittering, glamorous one-day comic relief that was Dorothy Parker? Well, today’s short story is about HELL. Intrigued? Good. You should be. This is absolutely the most haunting story of all those I have […]

  Julie Israel

  18 January, 2013

  Reading, short story, Writing

  30 short stories in 30 days, dark, dream sequence, fiction, Hell, horror, Jonathan Lethem, macabre, speculative fiction, The Happy Man, writers, Writing