Sunday, December 15, 2013

Controversial Short Stories

Interesting piece over at Flavorwire on "10 Controversial Short Stories".  The strange thing is many of these shorts top people's lists of best short stories ever.

4 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

sandra seamans said...

I was surprised at some of these stories, Charles. It's interesting finding out what people found objectionable when they were first publishewd.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Which may be a good lesson to us all. I will never forget the shock of A GOOD MAN or THE LOTTERY.

sandra seamans said...

Neither of those stories shocked me, Patti. Of course, I came to them late in my reading and had read and seen far worse.

It seems strange that the critics are even worse now if you try for something new.