I’m not brilliant at naming specific stories but I have favourite British and Irish short story writers: Wendy Erskine, Jon McGregor (for me in preference to his novels), Danielle McLaughlin and Kirsty Logan all spring to mind.
A source of some more Scottish stories is The Poet and the Echo, Scratch Books, 2023. I especially like 'The Grey Eagle', by Harry Josephine Giles, written in the voice of a Scottish man in 1905 - though is he a man? The narrative voice is appropriate for someone in 1905 and that's part of its appeal/difference I think. Long old-fashioned sentences.
I've never taught writing but perhaps these would fit the bill:
The ghost story 'Doggerland’ by Kaliane Bradley, winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022.
Michael Magee, when he was called Michael Nolan, published a story which I think from memory was 'Rustlers', published in The Stinging Fly. A teenage boy/young man is taken sheep rustling by his father.
TSF also published his story 'Bottles' which I haven't read.
I’m not brilliant at naming specific stories but I have favourite British and Irish short story writers: Wendy Erskine, Jon McGregor (for me in preference to his novels), Danielle McLaughlin and Kirsty Logan all spring to mind.
Mary Costello, Lucy Caldwell, Cathy Sweeney's Flash Fiction.
A source of some more Scottish stories is The Poet and the Echo, Scratch Books, 2023. I especially like 'The Grey Eagle', by Harry Josephine Giles, written in the voice of a Scottish man in 1905 - though is he a man? The narrative voice is appropriate for someone in 1905 and that's part of its appeal/difference I think. Long old-fashioned sentences.
Cynan Jones would be interesting - most/all of his novels are so short that they are effectively short stories.
I've never taught writing but perhaps these would fit the bill:
The ghost story 'Doggerland’ by Kaliane Bradley, winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022.
Michael Magee, when he was called Michael Nolan, published a story which I think from memory was 'Rustlers', published in The Stinging Fly. A teenage boy/young man is taken sheep rustling by his father.
TSF also published his story 'Bottles' which I haven't read.