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What's your favorite short story you've ever read?

>> No.16087289

>>16087281
I just wish my favorite short story was a little longer *budum tish* (like the sound of sums after a joke, that’s what that means) haha :)

>> No.16087295

>>16087289
drums*

>> No.16087321

>>16087281
Dostoyevsky’s “White Nights” has to be my favorite, but I’m also a fan of Borges’ “The Immortal” and “The Library of Babylon”, and Murakami also has some great stories, like “Super Frog Saves Tokyo” and “Man-Eating Cats” or even “Hanalei Bay”

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>>16087281
Good Old Neon

>> No.16087326

>>16087321
Wow those sound really really cool

>> No.16087415

Good old neon by David Foster Wallace

>> No.16087433

David Foster Wallace’ Good Old Neon

>> No.16087441

>>16087281
Harrison Bergeron or Heard in the Dark 2

>> No.16087923

>>16087281
how much land does a man need by Tolstoy.

>> No.16088073

>>16087281
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes by J.D. Salinger

>> No.16088085

Joyce's 'The Dead', maybe pit and the pendulum

>> No.16088103

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

>> No.16088320

>>16087281
THE BELONGING KIND by William Gibson from BURNING CHROME

>> No.16088324

>>16087289
Cringe fuck you

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>>16087281
Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius or The Disk by Borges (or literally anything by Borges)
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber By Hemingway
A Sound of Thunder by Bradbury
Most of Dubliners, particularly The Sisters, A Mother, Grace and The Dead

I’ve been trying to read a short story a day for a month or so because I don’t read enough of them

>> No.16089414

>>16087281

The man who gave up his name.

Jim Harrison

>> No.16089457

A Clean Well Lighted Place
Big Two Hearted River
Young Goodman Brown
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Bartleby the Scrivener
For Esme - With Love and Squalor
Death and the Compass
The Girls in their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw
Imagine Kissing Pete by John O’Hara
The State of Grace by Harold Brodkey
A Room Forever by Breece D’J Pancake
Neighbors by Raymond Carver
They’re Not Your Husband by Raymond Carver

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>>16087281
El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan

>>16088369
>>16089457
He asked for your favorite, meaning one, midwits.

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>>16087281
Flowers for Algernon is so far the only literary work that's brought me for tears

>> No.16089835

A Rose for Emily. I read this once, 20 years ago and it's still vivid in my mind.