Short Story #1: The Fortune-Teller by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Anderson was the father of all my works," declared William Faulkner, "and those of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc. … He showed us the way." Written in a seemingly simple narrative style, Anderson's slice-of-life stories often explored the loneliness and frustration of small-town life Short Stories In English Selected Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories Short Story