Best Short Story - Nominations Closed

[Jean]

This thread is for members to nominate short stories for the Award for Best Short Story. In order for a title to be eligible for nomination it must simply be one of Stephen King's published works; titles published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman are also eligible.

To nominate a title for this category, simply post your choice in this thread. In order for a title to be placed onto the voting ballot for the Award the nominated title must be seconded and thirded, also in this thread. This is to ensure that we do not have an overly long list of contenders for the Award, and that--by virtue of the nomination process--each title listed on the ballot is guaranteed to have at least something of a following come voting time. Please note that you MUST clearly state in your post that you are seconding or thirding a nomination for it to count. Feel free to deliberate and discuss your choices in this thread.

While you may second or third a nomination more than once, we ask that there be only one new nomination per member.

For reference, see wiki: Short fiction by Stephen King (with the exception of N which we consider to be a novella)

[mae]

Nona from Skeleton Crew! My all-time favorite King short story.

"Do you love?"

[Jean]

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away from Everything's Eventual

[jayson]

Seconding "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away"

Nominating "The Body". I know technically it's a novella so if the Different Seasons stories are not counted as short stories, let me know and I will nominate something else.

[Jean]

Seconding "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away"

[jayson]

I love that story. I also knew you'd be nominating it (I pay attention to things you've said in other threads)

[mae]

To aid folks in making their decision, here's a thorough listing I found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_f...y_Stephen_King

[mae]

The Body has to be nominated in the novella category.

[Jean]

(I pay attention to things you've said in other threads)

right back at ya!

[jayson]

Okey dokey, and thanks Pablo, I suspected that might be the case with "The Body".

In that case, I nominate "Lunch at the Gotham Café"

[Jean]

Lunch at the Gotham Café seconded!

[mae]

Café thirded. What a great, crazy story.

[Girlystevedave]

Nominating:

Strawberry Spring
and
The Boogeyman

[jayson]

Café thirded. What a great, crazy story.

I worked in a lot of kitchens in a lot of restaurants (including during the time when I was reading E.E.). I could see it happening quite easily.

[mae]

Speaking of short stories, I find it a tad odd that King writes in his Just After Sunset intro that "Willa" was the story that spurred the output that resulted in this collection, but it was published in 2006. "The Things They Left Behind", "Stationary Bike", "Rest Stop", and "Harvey's Dream" all came before it.

[Aaron]

I nominate My Pretty Pony.

[The Lady of Shadows]

fourth lunch at the gotham cafe

third all that you love will be carried away

second strawberry spring

nominate 1408

[mae]

1408 seconded.

No love for Nona?

[The Lady of Shadows]

totally missed nona.

"do you love?"

second nona

[Sam]

I nominate The Man in the Black Suit.

1408 thirded.

[Jean]

The Boogeyman seconded

[ManOfWesternesse]

Nominate "N".

[Jean]

N is a novella, according to StephenKing.com (I added the list of novellas to my first post in Novellas thread)

pablo: if there are discrepancies between wiki and StephenKing.com, we'll choose the latter, ok?

[Jean]

Nona 2
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away 3
Lunch at the Gotham Café 4
Strawberry Spring 2
The Boogeyman 2
My Pretty Pony 1
1408 3
The Man in the Black Suit 1

[ManOfWesternesse]

N is a novella, according to StephenKing.com (I added the list of novellas to my first post in Novellas thread)

Had a look.

N. is listed as a Short Story published in Sunset
N is listed as a Novella (Uncollected)

?wtf?

And HOW can Little Sisters be listed as a Short Story & not a Novellette?