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1. The Jaunt by Stephen King — a tale about the history of teleportation and one very curious boy.
2. Concentration City by J.G. Ballard — a man ponders what lies beyond a very big city
3. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway — two men and a woman on an ill-advised big game hunt.
4. All the King's Horses by Kurt Vonnegut — a US Army colonel is taken POW by a communist regime during the cold war and finds himself forced to play a game of chess for the highest stakes.
5. It's a novella rather than a short story, but The Langoliers by Stephen King — riveting tale about a small group of passengers waking up on a plane to discover the crew and all the other passengers are missing.
6. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut — in the future everyone must be equal. No one is allowed to be exceptional and those that threaten this equality by being too intelligent or attractive are handed appropriate handicaps.
7. The Yattering and Jack by Clive Barker — a minor demon seeks to antagonise a seemingly oblivious man.
Since I'm including novellas, it would seem wrong to not include three excellent and well-known novellas to round out my ten:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. George, Lennie and a piece of alfalfa for the rabbits...
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. An old man and his very big fish...
Animal Farm by George Orwell. Some animals are more equal than others...
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