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What are the best short stories? preferably as short as possible.

>> No.18041175
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A Little Fable

>"ALAS," said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

-Franz Kafka

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>> No.18041200

>>18041175
>>18041189
do you guys know any with strong imagery?

>> No.18041207

>>18041164
The Canterbury Tales is composed of short stories.

>> No.18041220

>>18041207
too old

>> No.18041231

>>18041200
Thomas Ligotti is your guy then. Check these out

The red tower in Teatro grottesco
Shadow at the bottom of the world in grimscribe
Nethescurial also from grimscribe

>> No.18041299

>>18041231
where can i read these?

>> No.18041381

>>18041164
House of Asterion by Borges

>> No.18041400

>>18041299
Buy the book or google a pdf, is this a joke? lmao. youre helpless

>> No.18041403

>>18041299
you can listen

https://youtu.be/2ud5YdaiRc8
https://youtu.be/mzFYaSWIakg
https://youtu.be/O9iOXqUEJo0

>> No.18041404

>>18041164
The Dead by Joyce

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>>18041164
The 1001 Nights is the greatest short story collection of all time.

>> No.18041409

>>18041164
The Dinosaur, by Monterroso
"When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there"

>> No.18041443

N

>> No.18041482

>>18041175
- David Foster Wallace

>> No.18041639

>>18041400
aggressive fag

>> No.18041646

>>18041405
true.

>> No.18041727

>>18041405
Haven't read this in years, should probably get back to that world sometime

>> No.18041760

>>18041220
Come on. This stuff is funny. Check out the Cook's Tale.

https://youtu.be/MmUbuoY1774

>> No.18042737

51 Tales by Lord Dunsany

>> No.18043632

Dagon by Lovecraft

>> No.18044200

>>18041164
god i love sufism

>> No.18044219

>>18041164
A lot of Hemingway and Chekhov short stories are less than 20 pages and among the best

>> No.18044423

Ballad of Buster scruggs

>> No.18044463

Knock by Frederic Brown

>> No.18045386

>>18041164
Anything by Borges

>> No.18045450

>>18041231
>Thomas Ligotti is your guy then.
I second this.

>> No.18045930

>>18041164
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place