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Tagged with young-adult short-stories
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Looking for short horror story about two kids and a spell book
I’ve been looking around for a collection of short stories that contained one in particular. A brother and sister discover a book of magic in their grandparents’ basement. The girl begins using the ...
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Short story about two Native American brothers who were chased down a mountain by a monster
I’m looking for the name of a story about two Native American brothers who were in the woods on a mountain. There was a monster (I think it was a Bigfoot or a cyclops or something humanoid) that was ...
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Young adult short story about barbaric duels on the surface of a moon
I recently had a recollection of a short story that I was assigned to read while in an American middle school in the early '80s. Details are scarce sadly but I believe it may have come from a sci-fi ...
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Collection of sci-fi short stories I read in the '90s. One story was about a girl and boy with powers who'd been raised on a spaceship
I think there was a hand on the cover which looked like it was pushing through/covered by a type of material. The last or near-last story was about a girl and boy with powers who'd been raised on a ...
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1980's? Young Adult Fantasy Orphan Son Who Dies in Car Accident
I remember reading this short story or novella when I was a teenager, so it may have been written in the 70's, 80's, or 90's. I remember that there is a teenage orphan son who is on a road trip. You ...
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Short story, all characters young, apparently male. One character floats in air, another is teddy bear
This could be anywhere from say 1970 or so to 1983. Book, probably hardcover, collection of short stories.
All characters young, apparently male. One character floats in the air, and is insufferably ...
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Trying to find an old Scifi short story for kids. Boy & Father travel to another planet alone after rest of the ships crew goes insane
Read it in the early 80's but felt like it was from the 70's or 60's. School library collection of sci-fi stories for elementary school kids (multi-volume series was blue hardbacks I think). The one ...
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Mutineers force captain to record instructions to spaceship's computer but he leaves out "please"
The crew mutinies on a spaceship whose captain controls it with verbal orders. They test whether they can control the ship with recordings of the captain's voice with an order to increase orbital ...
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Short horror story set in a pawn shop, mirror with dark history/ties to dark magic is involved
I read this in the early 2000s. It was checked out from either my school or local library (in Canada, if that makes a difference). It was definitely written in English. It may have been part of a ...
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Identifying a dystopian short story of a totalitarian state about a man of high intelligence subject to bursts of painful static [duplicate]
I recall reading an American SF short story which I read in my early teens. It made quite an impression on me. It starred a couple, a man of high intelligence, who every ten minutes was subjected to a ...
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looking for science fiction short story about boy and friends who jump through planet gates to watch star explosions
This story is relatively new. It's short probably from one of the most known sci/fi magazines (Asimov, Analog, The magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Clarkesworld) I just read it earlier this ...
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Anthology book: man tricked he was dead by falling off a balcony, apocalypse with black spot on the sun etc
Male author(s). I read this book between 1996-2000 and was published in the USA some time within that decade. It was written in English and was an anthology book. I can recall 3 stories though I ...
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Short story about a train ride into a sleepy country
Two people ride a train into a place where there is some disease that makes everyone fall asleep. They tell each other jokes to stay awake. It was a story in a science fiction anthology for young ...
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90s YA novel or short story: girl on an intergalactic vessel overhears aliens debating whether to destroy Earth, or establish first contact
I believe I read this book in the 90's. I doubt the book was published much past 1999.
I believe the protagonist is a female character who might be a stowaway on some kind of intergalactic vessel. I ...
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2010s (?) YA sci-fi short story book with eerie or disturbing endings; one involving mind control and a baseball player
I read this book around 2013/14 but I’m not sure when it was published. Essentially there were a bunch of short stories with creepy or disturbing endings. I only remember one of them but I don’t know ...
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