short stories

ok, so i have passed the afternoon reading short stories......from collections purchased randomly at thrift shops.....which speaks more to the under-appreciation of the original owner rather than to worth......i have learned to recognize quality paperbacks worth buying by the size of the book.....those that measure 5 x 8...or so.....seem to be more desirable than those measuring 4 x 6.75.......who knew?.......the authors i have thus bought and read of late are by alice munro......a celebrated canadian short storyist that i found tedious this time around......another fellow adam haslett was much more compelling......and yet another...david schickler....was engrossing.......his stories were all set in the same nyc apartment building...characters overlapped......the tension carried through....tension of danger, exposure, your basic deadly sins.......this book of stories is called kissing in manhattan.......well worth the time to seek it out.....well worth my 50 cents the going goodwill price.......i was thinking of short stories yesterday when i came across my well-thumbed copy of colette's the break of day......and it occured to me that colette's short story of gigi was made into an academy-award winning film...much like brokeback mountain started out as a short story......and i envisioned the break of day as it would be filmed with somebody like ang lee at the helm.......with maybe emma thompson playing colette....in love with a younger man, who is in turn in love with a much younger woman......the story unfolds in the south of france well west of the cote d'azur.......but still basks in the sunshine and the aromas and the lazy days that one associates with provence......should i ever win the lottery i might just have to fund such a film project....not to make money....but to at least see such a book set to the silver screen..............