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Tlon, Uqbar and Orbius Tertius

The one in Fictions about the spy, the last story in part one

BLIT

>>19598225
Ah, so you're back with your thread anon? This is your 3rd thread that I am participating in.

My choice is same, A Little Fable by Kafka.

>>19598306
Yea the last one didn't last long enough for me to count it. I still have the original so I'm hoping this one goes on long enough for me to be able to compare the two and start setting up a spreadsheet.

>>19598225
Green texts posted on this website are better than everything I ever read in years of attending English literature classes

>>19598306
>My choice is same, A Little Fable by Kafka.

>>19598225
Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”
Breece D’J Pancake’s “Trilobytes”

Flannery O’Connor’s- judgement day
DFW- good old neon
Hemingway- the snow of Kilimanjaro
Lovecraft- the music of Eric Zahn

Theodore Sturgeon - The Man who Lost the Sea

Killings by Andre Dubus although the movie is better by miles.

>>19598225
https://genius.com/David-foster-wallace-incarnations-of-burned-children-annotated

As a short story enthusiast, there are many. I’ll list a couple keeping one per writer

>A Big Two Hearted River by Hemingway
>A Country Doctor by Kafka
>Bezhin Meadow by Turgenev
>A Simple Heart by Flaubert
>The Nose by Gogol
>For Esme- With Love And Squalor by Salinger
>The Lady With The Dog by Chekhov
>Letter To A Young Lady In Paris by Cortazar
>Boule De Suif by Maupassant
>Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Carol Oates
>Babylon Revisited by Fitzgerald
>A Good Man Is Hard To Find by O’Connor

bumping my own thread

'The God of His Fathers' by Jack London

For Esmé

>The Starveling by DeLillo
>Hammer & Sickle by DeLillo
I never see DeLillo's short fiction mentioned, but few stories stick with me the way these two have.
>The Swimmer by Cheever
>Gooseberries by Chekhov
>The Pedersen Kid by Gass
>Bartleby, the Scrivener by Melville

>>19599170
I hate Gass but loved The Pedersen Kid. I had a lot of fun reading that

>>19598225
A Rose for Emily by Faulkner

>>19598225
Markheim
Short story by Robert Louis Stevenson

>>19599170
swimmer is kino

Good old neon. It's been a bit since I read it but I still think I'd like it.

>>19598225
A Pail of Air

>>19598231
this is a good choice. Borge actually predicts computer science and programmimg language development lol with the mythical languages constructed with only verbs or only adjectives etc.

>>19598225
Araby

>>19598225
the story of my cock

swaddling clothes_yukio mishima
the hunter Gracchus_franz kafka
Billy Budd_melville
the lottery_shirley jackson
death of Ivan llych_tolstoy
the three hermits_tolstoy
An occurence at owlcreek bridge_Ambrose bierce
young goodman brown_N.Hawthorne
Troll Bridge_Neil gaimen
Murder Mysteries_Neil gaimen
A clean well lighted place_Hemingway
The untold Lie_Sherwood anderson
The Eclipse_Augusto Monterroso
Thank me later thats it for today

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The October Game by Ray Bradbury

>>19598225
The Last Question. By Isaac Asimov.

Can't remember the name but it's from Dubliners and ends with an old man telling a little boy that if his son had a girl he liked, he would beat him within an inch of his life

>>19598225
A Clean, Well Lighted Place
Because I too like drink in quiet places while amidst existential turbulence

The Most Dangerous Game

>>19600094
As good as it gets

>The Burning Plain by Rulfo
>Three-Ten to Yuma by Leonard
>The Southern Highway by Cortazar
>The Switchman by Arreola
>Patriotism by Mishima
>The Second Variety by Dick
>A Perfect Day for Banana Fish by Salinger
>The Anarchist Banker by Pessoa
>Barn Burning by Faulkner
>The Killers by Hemingway

the use of force
W.C.Williams

“The Lottery of Babylon” by Borges
“Tlon, Uqbar, and Orbius Tertius” by Borges
“The Littlest Hitler” by Ryan Boudinot
“Key Performance Indicators” by Zero HP Lovecraft

>>19598225
The Furnished Room - O. Henry

>>19598225
I love that pepe so goddamn much.

>>19598225
Escape into Immortality by Stefan Zweig

>>19599851
>making long ass lists

just pick owl creek nerd

>>19600397
ok Rod.

>>19598225
Rustico and Alibech

>>19598248
Garden of Forking Paths

the father
R.V. Cassil

>>19598225
¡Adiós, Cordera!

>>19598225
I have no mouth, and I must scream by Harlan Ellison.
looking for short story recs similar to this

I like his opening introductuion.
Sadistic computer program!!!

A Report to an Academy - Franz Kafka

>>19599346
Nice. Read that in high school.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man or God Sees the Truth, But Waits

>>19598225
The Star by Arthur C Clarke

>>19598225
Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King

>>19598225
Here it is:

Libs in the Whitehouse, lefties in big tech, normies in the bathroom with PCR tests. I tried to leave the city, but I couldn't get far, because joggers from the ghetto repossessed my car.

>>19598732
These are all relatively well know. Any short stories specialized writers not often mentioned on lit that you would like to recommend? Any collections? What do you think about collections by Murakami, are they any better than his shitnovels?

bump

>>19602683
I like Frank O’Connor. I have an Everyman’s Library book with his short story collection. No one seems to know him. He deals with Ireland during the troubles. There is a great story Guests Of The Nation about 2 IRA guys who are holding a couple of British soldiers prisoner in a safe house. They become friendly when word comes through that the British has killed a couple IRA prisoners and that the score must be evened.
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson is good. He’s like Raymond Carver meets Bukowski meets Burroughs meets Lispector. Some raw powerful stories about people on the edge of society. The whole book is ~120 pages
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson isn’t obscure but it’s definitely a cult classic. It’s hard to recommend any individual story as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I always liked this blurb by Henry Miller:
>The thought of him walking about the streets in our big cities in bewilderment led me to broach the name of Sherwood Anderson whom I always think of as the one American writer of our time who has walked the streets of our American cities as a genuine poet…. I suddenly became obsessed with the idea of selling them Sherwood Anderson. I began a monologue myself for a change-about writers who walk the streets in America and are not recognized till they are ready for the grave…He(Anderson) would probably have been astounded had he heard the exploits I was crediting him with….In my worst days in America he was the man who comforted me, by his writings. It was only the other day that I met him for the first time. I found no discrepancy between the man and the writer. I saw in him the born storyteller, the man who could make even the egg triumphant….And in Sherwood Anderson’s writing, there are traces of the weather. I like men who have weather in their blood.
On that note, Henry Miller’s short story collection Black Spring is great too

>>19603543
I forgot about Murakami. I like him but I have to space his books out since they all feel the same. I like the surreal atmosphere he creates with a noir feel. His writing is simple but entertaining. I think I liked The Elephant Vanishes best for his short stories. That has the closest feel to The Wind Up Bird Chronicles which is one of my favorite books

>>19603543
Some good suggestions here.

Here's a list of my favourites, with the journal or magazine's website where you can read them.

(Bull Fiction) Porkchop by Heath Dollar
(Bull Fiction) Townie by Sarah Walker
(Eclectica) Confessions of a Nihilist by William Starr Moake
(Guernica) Superman by Cari Luna
(Juked) No Deposit Love by Kevin P. Keating
(Long Leaf Review) The Drive South By Sarah Boudreau
(Necessary Fiction) Love Story In A Movie Theater Where A Loud Man Is Smoking A Cigarette by Daniel Paul
(Nervous Breakdown) Good Luck by Bud Smith
(Nervous Breakdown) Pergola By Kevin Maloney
(Nervous Breakdown) Two Letters to Francine, the Jewel-Osco Cashier at Aisle Five
(Pithead Chapel) Baby Elephant Walk by Neil Serven
(Pithead Chapel) Basement Miracles by R.S. Wynn
(Pithead Chapel) Wayfaring By Leesa Cross-Smith
(X-Ray) Oliver by Kevin Maloney
(X-Ray) Uncle Charlie’s Bicycle By Rick White

>>19603543
>>19603581
>>19603651
Thanks. Denis Johnson seems particularly interesting, I will check him out. I have not read Anderson even though his book is a classic, so there is that too.

>>19603826
Bump

Bartleby I guess.

The Kiss - Chekov

>>19598225
Hemingway, The Big Two-Hearted River

Los caballos de Abdera - Lugones

Kreutzer Sonata

Bukowski. from The life of a bum.
>It was 11 a.m. He walked south. The hangover was brutal but he didn’t
mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good. As he
walked along he found half a cigarette in his shirt pocket. He stopped,
looked at the crushed and blackened end, found a match, then tried to light
up. The flame didn’t catch. He kept trying. After the fourth match, which
burned his fingers, he was able to get a puff. He gagged, then coughed
>He thought a little bit about suicide then…in an easy way. Like most
men would think about buying a new pair of shoes. The main problem
with suicide was the thought that it might lead to something worse. What
he really needed was an ice cold bottle of beer, the label soaked just so, and
with those chilled beads so beautiful on the surface of the glass.

>>19598225
The wonderful story of henry sugar

>>19598225
Tony's Story, it's only 4 pages. Pseuds think it's racial but it's actually about laziness.

>>19598225
that Chekhov one where a guy and a girl go down a hill in a sled and he whispers to her that he loves her to fuck with her

bump

>>19598732
NOSE

Nabokov wrote some of the most beautiful. Almost all of them are moving but the ones that stuck with me enough to mention them first are Signs and Symbols, The Word, and Music (NOT Sounds, that's a different one).
Music specifically is the kind of incredibly dense writing that I wish I could do myself. It's not dense in the sense that there's too much purple prose or anything like that, but in the sense that he can make you feel a whole hell of a lot from the tiniest little details and the briefest glimpse at somebody's life.

>>19605755
I like Signs and Symbols a lot, but I can see why a lot of Anons criticize Nabokov. It feels like a cheap gimmick where Nabokov is dishonest with the reader and even rubs their nose in it

Everythings Eventual
S.K.

>>19598225
The other death

Edgar Allen Poe - The Black Cat

H.P.Lovecraft
The shunned house

>>19605955
That's a whole book, not one favorite short story!

>>19605786
How is he dishonest in symbols? You did... solve it... didnt you anon?
>>19605755
I like first love best

>>19598231
>>19598248
>>19599702
>>19600344
Theologians is his best story.

>>19605755
I don't have Nabakov's collection handy (I lend it from a library) but that one about a friendship of two kids that had fun at some French beach was very lovely. Google'd it out, it was "Colette".
Thank you, you lovely anons for recs, I'm going to harvest this thread now.

>>19598225
Bears Discover Fire by Bisson
Runners up:
Poe's A Balloon Hoax, A Descent into the Maelstrom, and MS in a Bottle
Gaiman's Harlequin Valentine and October in the chair.
I'd honestly recommend everything I've read by all three authors, but with time being what it is that would be my shortlist. I would have answered Gaiman's collection of his retellings of Norse legends but I feel that might not be what OP was asking for.

>>19598225
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol. Nabokov called it the greatest Russian short story ever written.

>>19598225
Heirs of the Living Body by Munro
Looking Back by Maupassant
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Poe
A Perfect Day for Bananfish, Teddy, For Esme with Love and Squalor by Salinger
The Judgment and In the Penal Colony by Kafka
Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky

Good old neon

>>19608322
Seconding this.

>>19608322
> The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Seconded, great stuff

>>19607620
No

The one mark twain wrote about that deviil that some village kids hung out with and he was doing magic but then killing people and it was great.

>>19609339
Yes

>>19598504
cringe

Chiang — “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” and “Hell is the Absence of God”
Borges — “The Circular Ruins” and “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
Akutagawa — “Green Onions”

>>19598231
Fpbp
I feel so high brow for always saying this, it's such a great story.

>>19611482
ted chiang?

>>19598225
>Little Match Girl - Andersen
>Report to an Academy - Kafka
>Viy - Gogol

I don't know if there is an English translation, but I Sette Messaggeri (The seven messengers) by Dino Buzzati is one of my favourites

>>19612506

absolutely based Sci-Fi

his story, "The Story of your Life" was the basis for Arrival

>>19613243
>I don't know if there is an English translation
Why would that matter? kek

why would i read the manlet version of a novel

>>19613265
its the opposite for me

H.P Lovecraft
The Outsider

I will complete my goodreads goal thanks to this thread

A bunch of my favorites were already mentioned, so some additional stories that weren't brought up yet:
Kafka, "A Hunger Artist"
Saunders, "Sea Oak"
O'Connor, "Good Country People"
Dick, "The Hanging Stranger"
Dineson, "The Blue Jar"
Saki, "The Background"
Mishima, "Patriotism"
Edogawa, "The Human Chair"

pugilist at rest
thom jones

The Earthgod and the Fox by Kenji Miyazawa

>>19598225
This

>>19616040
You're only cheating yourself, anon.

>>19598225
The Veldt

I wanted to try to read a short story every day next year, so this thread has been pretty helpful.

>>19613265
why would you read the obese version of a story?

>>19617211
what

>>19598597
Based solely because of Erich Zahn (also you forgot an H)

>>19618921
Also its Zann which came into mind right after i posted.

>>19598225
"Storia di un'ideale" (story of an ideal), by Igino Ugo Tarchetti, he basically described incels and the concept of a waifu in the mid 19th century

>>19598225
For sale. Baby shoes. Jizzed in.