Short Fiction

Here are some of the short fiction offerings you may choose to study. (You are going to read four, and then do this for three of them. Be sure to read at least two different authors. Your least favourite of the stories you read, you will do The Loser Assignment for.):

Andrew Lang Fairy Tales:
Aladdin
Online archive of all of them.
The Story of Sigurd: The Andrew Lang story J.R.R. Tolkien
read as a child which made him want to write a story with
a dragon in it (The Hobbit).

Neil Foster Macphail's modernizations:
Jason and the Argonauts (entire novel)
The Harpies
A Royal Bout
Stealing the Golden Fleece
Sea Pursuit
The Sirens
Talos the Brass Giant
Betrayal in the Night

Beowulf the Monster Slayer
Beowulf and the Monster Grendel
Beowulf Faces Grendel's Mother
Old Beowulf and the Dragon

French Canadian folktale in English
La Chasse-Galerie (a story about lumberjacks who risk their soul to the Devil in order to make their canoe fly, taking them to a dance many miles away where their sweethearts are)

Indigenous Folktales
Raven and His Grandmother
Why The Mouse is So Silky
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky
Nineteen Stories about Glooskap