Magic Short Stories

I have always loved short stories, ever since I was very young. Of course, when I was a kid the short tales that I read were mostly fantasy. I loved folklore, mythology ,and anything else that involved fantastic creatures or other worlds. It seems that my tastes have changed a lot over the years, and there are many things that I enjoy now that I wouldn’t have liked very much even as a young adult. Even so, fantasy and science fiction stories still have a special place in my heart.
When I was a kid, of course, my favorite thing was to be read short stories by my mother or father. They were both good readers, and were always able to pick out the very best short story collections for kids. They, like me, had been raised on tales of the fantastic, and so they knew just what short stories would hold my interest. They also really loved to read out loud, and I think that it gave them a great deal of pleasure to see me so entranced by the stories that they themselves had grown up on.