The thread where you must post every time you visit

I was reading along.

And I can't go back and italicise Hudibras without being recorded as having edited, so I won't. I'm not even sure if it should be italicised. The modern convention most widely observed is to italicise the title of a novel, while the title of a poem or short story goes in quotation marks. But Hudibras, like Paradise Lost, is very long, so generally gets italicised.

I don't think Poe wrote many short stories that would fit in a single post. 

I don't know how well-known this story is outside anglophonia, but it's interesting for anyone who likes words, and myths: www.thevintagenews.com/2017/09/24/for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn-tracing-the-history-of-the-shortest-story-ever-told/?edg-c=1

I know the baby-shoes story.

I don't know the full story of the science fiction equivalent: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Fredric Brown used that as an opening for a 1948 short story. The Wiki account is unclear; it's recognised that the first two sentences could in theory stand alone, but was this something Brown picked up and ran with, or were those lines only famous after the story was written?