Short Story Genre Study
Genre Short Fiction
Detective/Mystery
Science Fiction (LeGuin)
Alternative History
Fantasy (Block)
Short Short Fiction
Microfiction
Sudden Fiction (International)
Flash Fiction
US American Short Fiction
O’Connor
Bierce (“An Occurrence at
Faulkner
Salinger (Nine Stories)
Singer
Raymond Carver (Cathedral)
Hemingway
O’Brien (“How to Tell a True War Story” in The Things They Carried)
Cisneros
Alexie
International Short Fiction
Kafka
Joyce
Checkov
Garcia Marquez (subgenre: Magical Realism)
Miscellaneous Anthologies (Collections of Short Fiction)
For each of the three short stories do the following…
Write the story’s title and author.
Then write…
- Three aspects of the story from which you could learn something about writing short fiction: character, setting, event, plot, narrative voice, symbol, motif, theme, mood, tone, etc. (Paragraph.)
- Two questions you have about the story.
- One creative writing assignment based on the story. (Provide directions.
