Recommend first-person (POV) short stories

Sure. Here's one of mine, over at Amarillo Bay.

Thanks, sketchyfish! Glad you enjoyed it. No, I don't have any other stories at that site, and the only other two I can find that are still online are both romance (and neither is in first person). If you're interested anyway, they're here and here.

I like first person POV in short stories. Here's one of mine, a mystery-suspense yarn.

http://www.plan-b-magazine.com/murderous-lies-by-peter-dichellis/

Best wishes,
Peter DiChellis

On the literary side, Glimmer Train publishes a lot of first-person stories. Many other litmags do as well.

caw

Here's a few free ones I could get hold of (and also a few favourites of mine).

Chuck Palahniuk - Guts (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts)
Bukowski - No Way to Paradise
Michael Gira - I'm an Infant, I Worship Him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysyB_rhAWs) [Couldn't find a text version, but it is just as enthralling to listen to]
A load of Neil Gaiman ones here - http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/neil_gaimans_free_short_stories.html

Most of mine which are published in AHMM are first person. I've written two series there, one in first and the other is in third.

Side Jobs by Jim Butcher is a collection of short stories set in the larger Dresden Files universe (Urban Fantasy). I enjoyed it.

I've read a lot of shorts by Stephen King that are in first. Worth checking some of his collections out of the library, maybe?

I also wrote a first-person creepy little thing, if you want to read it.
http://the-toast.net/2013/08/21/someone-has-to/

sketchyfish said:

I was wonder if I could get some recommendations for a first-person short story or two. It doesn't matter so much what genre it is, but I plan on writing one myself and I was hoping to read a few examples. I apologize if something like this has already been mentioned.

Thanks in advance!

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My current collection has two stories in first person. If you're interested in reading them, PM me, and I can send you an electronic copy of the book.

Here's my own "Out Stack", 6100 words in first present: here. (Sexual content, strong language.)

As with other things, I do use first person a lot (except when I don't).

All of my published works are in the first person POV, past tense. I write erotica (nothing too kinky or BDSM), though, so you might not be interested. Let me know either on the thread or privately and I'll set you up with some examples.

Having said that, for my anthology submissions, I use the 3rd person since most folks and editors like it better (from what I've heard...).

I like first person, and probably eighty percent of the short stories I've sold are first person, including three I sold to Ellery Queen. THis means I'm constantly on the lookout for first person stories. Lawrence Block is one of my favorite mystery writers, and he has several collections of short stories, almost all in first person.