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    If you are like me, you find that most SK collections have a few truly great stories, alot of very good ones, a few average, as well as a couple that were a waste of time to read. I was wondering what stories would make it into a collection edited by our members. So, Imagine you have 10 slots, no novellas, so they must be less than 100 pages each. Here are mine. I have never read Just after Sunset, so my list doesnt contain any from that book.

    1. Children of the Corn
    2. The Mangler
    3. Survivor Type
    4. Gramma
    5. The Raft
    6. The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
    7. Suffer the Little Children
    8. The Man in the Black Suit
    9. Lunch at the Gotham Cafe.
    10. 1408
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    oh, what a wonderful thread! I think mine are:

    1. All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
    2. Popsy
    3. The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
    4. Umney's Last Case
    5. Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
    6. The Boogeyman
    7. Suffer the Little Children
    8. Cain Rose Up
    9. Crouch End
    10. Night Surf

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    There are still a lot of stories I have yet to read but here's my top 10 from what I have read:

    01 Do The Dead Sing?
    02 Dolan's Cadillac
    03 Graveyard Shift
    04 Gray Matter
    05 The Ledge
    06 The Man Who Loved Flowers
    07 Night Surf
    08 Quitter's Inc.
    09 The Raft
    10 Survivor Type

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    10 stories seems like a very short short story collection, but I love the thread idea. Here's mine:

    The Boogeyman
    The Monkey
    Jerusalem's Lot
    Here There Be Tygers
    Suffer The Little Children
    Gramma
    The Reploids
    Crouch End
    N
    The End Of The Whole Mess
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    Yeah Brice, probably shoulda been 15 to twenty, but since it would be a book from everyones favorites maybe after we get some more replies we could compile a list of 15 - 20.
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    maybe we would have a better chance if we had more slots: so far there isn't a single story to be seen on every list

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    Wow, tough, tough, tough. Here's 10; no particular order except for the first one:

    Last Rung on the Ladder, The
    Monkey, The
    Boogeyman, The
    Quitters, Inc.
    Jaunt, The
    1408
    N.
    Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, The
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    bump in the wake of Short Story Battle Royale. I wish more people had participated, the result may have been quite different.

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    I'll take a stab at this.

    The Raft
    Dolan's Cadillac
    The Ledge
    1408
    In the Deathroom
    A Very Tight Place
    The Death of Jack Hamilton
    Battleground
    The Man in the Black Suit
    Chattery Teeth
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    The day the bumbler died.”


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    Quote Originally Posted by divemaster View Post
    Wow, tough, tough, tough. Here's 10; no particular order except for the first one:

    Last Rung on the Ladder, The
    Monkey, The
    Boogeyman, The
    Quitters, Inc.
    Jaunt, The
    1408
    N.
    Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, The
    L. T.'s Theory of Pets
    That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
    Huh, it's funny that I have Quitter's, Inc. in my list from last year, but I just voted for The Raft in the battle thread. I really like them both; I guess it's just what mood you catch me in.

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    "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," "Children of the Corn," "N.," "1408," "The Death of Jack Hamilton," "The Gingerbread Girl," "Jerusalem's Lot," "Survivor Type," "Mute," "The Night Flier," and "The Man with the Black Suit? would be my "best of... SK's Short Fiction" book.

    Maybe, if space allowed, including Mile 81 in there, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bmcmolo View Post
    "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe,"
    Yes!

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