10 Best Short Stories 2021 You Will Want To Read
If you are tired of novels, try short stories. Short stories can usually tell a wonderful story in a very short length. Now we have compiled 10 best short stories 2021 you want to read.
- Silence in Wonderland
- One Night, One Day, One Year, One Lifetime
- First Love
- Youth and the Bright Medusa
- My Mortal Enemy
- Till My Last Breath
- But, I Don't Think
- The Torrents Of Spring
- The Eye Of Truth: Professor Eiza Cullen
- The Stars, My Brothers
Silence in Wonderland, by JMFelic
Synopsis
'You are not afraid of guns are you? Long, hard and ready to explode anytime, any day.' 'Do I look like I'm joking to you?' He could well drown me with those sky-colored eyes. I wouldn't care a damn thing.
'If you're not joking then so be it. Working as your boy wouldn't hurt I guess,' I told him, my mind already made up.
'Oh, it will,' he replied and despite how ghostly his grin appeared to be, I caught it with mischief. 'It comes with a special chore.'
'And what is that?' I took in his scent. The scent of a male I'm supposed to avoid. Greatly. With all my strength.
I guess that strength was nonexistent now when talking about my boss.
'You'll have to polish my rifles for me,' he worded smoothly. 'You are not afraid of guns are you? Long, hard and ready to explode anytime, any day.'
I couldn't help myself but ask, 'Are we talking about metallic objects here, Mr. Lancaster, Sir? Or something else?'
'Depends on how you understand it,' came his riddle and then he pulled my chair down. 'Now, talk! That's an order!'
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One Night, One Day, One Year, One Lifetime, by ghostnovelist_
Synopsis
That night, I listened to the hymns till dawn, not for serenity, but to seek a silver of your soul;
That month, I flipped through all the scriptures, not for enlightenment, but to touch the pages where your fingers once lingered;
That year, I knelt on the grounds, my head embracing the dusts, not to pay obeisance to the Gods, but to feel the warmth you left behind;
That life, I wandered through ten thousand great mountains, not in search for an afterlife, but to cross paths with you –
Gao Fei, do you believe that I lived through this night, this day, this year and this lifetime, only to hold your hands and accompany you in this journey of life?
Review
very good. highly recommended to read.
Simpy Katiyar
this is the first novel that made my cry twice sib
Aina Afiqah
OMG. I have read this on novelupdates. I fcking cried non stop when I was reading this. Thinking abt it right now makes me want to cry
LadyND
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First Love, by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Synopsis
Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor.
This family, as with many of the Russian minor nobility with royal ties of that time, were only afforded a degree of respectability because of their titles; the Zasyekins, in the case of this story, are a very poor family.
The young Vladimir falls irretrievably in love with Zinaida, who has a set of several other (socially more eligible) suitors whom he joins in their difficult and often fruitless search for the young lady's favour.
Review
good piece
Hillary Ejidike
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Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather
Synopsis
Paul had just come in to dress for dinner; he sank into a chair, weak in the knees, and clasped his head in his hands. It was to be worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of Cordelia Street were to close over him finally and forever. The grey monotony stretched before him in hopeless, unrelieved years; Sabbath-school, Young People's Meeting, the yellow-papered room, the damp dish-towels; it all rushed back upon him with sickening vividness. Excerpt fr “Paul's Case,” one of eight poetic stories in this memorable collection.
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My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather
Synopsis
First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness.
As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love–a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.
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Till My Last Breath, by Brant Hadel
Synopsis
Listless, lethargic, and lazy, that's how Aria would summarise the meagre traits she still possesses. Yet she joined the outdoor adventure club because of a gut feeling, a feeling that she just had to. Or she would miss something that is more dear to her than her own life.
3 years passed after joining the club, and she's now on her last camping trip with 4 other graduating members. Will she finally find what she's been looking for, the reason for her gut feeling that told her to join the club in the first place? Or will she return empty-handed once more?
Review
Like the story
Fallen Serajim
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But, I Don't Think, by Randall Garrett
Synopsis
A great Sci-Fi short story.
As every thinking man knows, every slave always yearns for the freedom his master denies him…
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The Torrents of Spring, by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Synopsis
Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt, where he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancee, Dimitry impetuously decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, the intriguing Madame Polozov, his youthful vulnerability makes him prey for a darker, destructive infatuation.
A novel of haunting beauty, “Spring Torrents” (1870-1) is a fascinating, partly autobiographical account of one of Turgenev's favourite themes – a man's inability to love without losing his innocence and becoming enslaved to obsessive passions.
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The Eye Of Truth: Professor Eiza Cullen, by Dazzling Star
Synopsis
The story about five students who are chosen by The Eye of Truth to uncover the mystery hidden behind the sudden death of their school favorite Professor Eiza Cullen. Will they be able to solve this mystery or will get lost in the puzzle forever?
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The Stars, My Brothers, by Edmond Moore Hamilton
Synopsis
He was afraid-not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space…
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