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Single Scene Short Stories Edited by Margaret Bishop The thirty-three works collected in Single Scene Short Stories each have one remarkable quality-the whole of the story takes place in one scene, one geographical coordinate, one window of time. To think of it dramatically, it is a story presented on a stage with no change of setting or costume, no voice-over summarizing or carrying the viewer from here to there. This collection contains some of the best single scene short stories ever written, the modern classics of this form.Stories include: “House Hunting,” Michael Chabon “The Daughter of Albion,” Anton Chekhov “The Ninth in E Minor,” Fred Busch “Crickets,” Robert Olen Butler “Intimacy,” Raymond Carver “The Nice Restaurant,” Mary Gaitskill “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway “San Francisco,” Amy Hempel “Eveline,” James Joyce “Wine,” Doris Lessing “A Ruse,” Guy de Maupassant “In the Warehouse,” Joyce Carol Oates “Revelation,” Flannery O’Connor “Mrs. Carrington and Mrs. Crane,” Dorothy Parker “Wants,” Grace Paley Sudden Fiction has sold 50,000 copies.
A compilation of acclaimed short stories that each take place within a single scene
When writing poetry in form, the accepted rule is that a poet can deviate from the strictures of the form a time or two, and such departures enhance the poem’s power. An extra foot, an off-rhyme, maybe a double envoi at the end of a sonnet, all have the potential to lift the poem off the page, to transport the reader beyond himself. Similarly, a few allowances in what constitutes a single scene has enabled this collection to be more exemplar than example. A tighter form allows the writer to express emotions—conflict, dissonance, fear, or love—that could be overwhelming or trite given too much A title form allows the writer to express emotions-conflicts, dissonance, fear, or love-that could be overwhelming or trite given to much free-form space. Perhaps that is why so many of these stories are about disturbed relationships or moments right before the end of life. Love and death and making a scene. The single scene story allows these experiences to go directly into our hearts where they enrich and inform our own awareness of being in this world.
Acknowledgments 9Introduction 11The Soul Molecule, Steve Almond 15Ad Infinitum : A Short Story, John Barth 23The Voices from the Other Roo m, Richard Bausch 31August 25 , 1983, Jorge Luis Borges 4 3The Ninth, in EMinor, Frederick Busch 49Crickets, Robert Olen Butler 61Olympus Hills, Ron Carlson 67Intimacy, Raymond Carver 71House Hunting, Michael Chabon 79A Daughter of Albion , Anton Chekhov 95The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin 99The Other Wife, Colette 103The Upturned Face, Stephen Crane 107The Hypnotizer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 111Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway 119San Francisco, Amy Hempel 125Eveline, James Joyce 127Wine, Doris Lessing 133To Build a Fire, Jack London 139Psychology, Katherine Mansfield 155ARuse, Guy de Maup assant 163Charades, Lorrie Moore 169In the Warehouse, Joyce Carol Oates 181Wants , Grace Paley 189Mrs. Carrington and Mrs. Crane, Dorothy Parker 193The Jilting of Granny We a the rall, Katherine Anne Porter 197</p
Smoke, Mary Robison 207
The Blind Spot, Saki 213Twenty Minutes , James Salter 219A & P, John Up dike 227The Use of Force, William Carlos Williams 235Bullet in the Brain, Tobi as Wolff 239About the Authors 245Credits 251Additional information
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