What is a single scene short story? It is a short work of fiction with a specific remarkable quality-the whole of the story takes place in one scene, one geographical coordinate, one window of time. To think of it dramatically, it is a story presented on a stage with no change of setting or costume, no voice-over summarizing or carrying the viewer from here to there. This collection contains some of the best single scene short stories ever written, the modern classics of the form.
Single Scene Short Stories includes the works of such well-known writers as Michael Chabon, Anton Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Mary Gaitskill, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Guy de Maupassant, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, John Updike, William Carlos Williams, Tobias Wolff, and many others. These stories will rivet you, move you, and unfold in you an awakening and recognition of what it is to be human. With the barest allowable back story-just a thin line here or there to locate you to the character or situation-these stories give us in a brief glimpse all the best that fiction has to offer.
Margaret Bishop received a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from George Mason University. She lives and writes in northern Virginia. Single Scene Short Stories is her first book.
Single Scene Short Stories includes works by the following:
John Barth
Jorge Luis Borges
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Fred Busch
Robert Olen Butler
Ron Carlson
Raymond Carver
Michael Chabon
Anton Chekhov
Colette
Ernest Hemingway
Amy Hempel
James Joyce
Doris Lessing
Jack London
Katherine Mansfield
Guy de Maupassant
Lorrie Moore
Joyce Carol Oates
Dorothy Parker
Grace Paley
Katherine Anne Porter
Mary Robison
James Salter
John Updike
William Carlos Williams
Tobias Wolff
