/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5162623]

What are some of /lit/'s favourite short stories?

[Anonymous No.5162639]

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

White Nights by Dostoyevsky

Cat in the Rain by Hemingway

The Dead from Joyce's Dubliners

Damn, maybe I just like sad shit...

[Anonymous No.5162681]

>>5162639
>I just like sad shit...
try
Vanka by Chekhov
the Story of my Dovecot by Babel
the Shawl by Cynthia Ozick

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>>5161472

There's this book of Icelandic short stories, from various contemporary authors, (from around the '40s and '50s). Edited by an Evelyn Scherabon Firchow. (pictured is all I can ever dig up) I checked it out of a library a couple of times, photocopied this one story, (but have since lost that), loved several of the other tales.
Here's the one that stands out in my mind...

On a dark and stormy winters night we're shown a little house somewhere along the shore, where a pregnant widower and an old midwife holed up. Through the narration we learn the pregnant girl's husband had died at sea. The old woman's talk of mortality were of no comfort to the poor woman. Then they hear a voice outside the shuttered window, howling in pain from the cold sea storm. They both go outside and manage to drag the poor creature inside. who seems unconscious.

We cut away in the story to show just how this found himself outside their window. Turns out he's an angle, and he's paying penance for some sort of mischief, by walking the earth, exposed to the elements and wingless. There's some other contrived condition for his reinstatement where he will grant the wish of someone who pays him some kindness without his asking. Cut back to the cabin and after waking up, the cherub gets the pregnant woman to make a wish. Cut back in heaven he gets his wings back and all seems well, but a rival angel asks what wish did he grant this woman.

The woman asked for her child to be, in the face of all the worlds pains and hardships, to be happy. This caused something of a commotion with all the other angles.

[Anonymous No.5162930]

>>5162623
>White Nights by Dostoyevsky
This. Also anything by Pushkin or Gogol.

[Anonymous No.5162934]

>>5162901
I like your angle on this but the coda would be to just give the child down's syndrome or something similar.

[Anonymous No.5162937]

Tell tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

[Anonymous No.5162959]

>>5162639
i just read cat in the rain by Hemingway. I do like the way he writes but the story, at least to me, seems pointless.. guess i`ll google some more about the story..seems so unusual how it ends

[Anonymous No.5162961]

>>5162901
nords are literally shitty at everything they can't into art

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>>5162961
That was my condensed version. It was a nice little fable, I thought.

[Anonymous No.5162981]

Young Goodman Brown
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Dead
The Rocking Horse Winner
A Clean Well Lighted Place
A Rose for Emily
They're Not Your Husband by Raymond Carver

[Anonymous No.5162987]

>>5162981
Forgot two
Death and the Compass
and
The Lottery

[Anonymous No.5162999]

>>5162623
Le horla, Guy de Maupassant.

[Anonymous No.5163043]

>>5162639
>an occurence at owl creek bridge

[Anonymous No.5163061]

good old neon
a good man is hard to find

2nding bartleby

[Anonymous No.5163065]

>>5162623

The Wall by Sartre
City of Cats from 1Q84

I know there's plenty others but I just woke up

[Anonymous No.5163067]

>>5162987
>the lottery
fucking plebs

[Anonymous No.5163853]

Off the top of my head, mine are:
Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Young Goodman Brown
The Body
Killers
Bernice Bobs her Hair
The Dead
Barn Burning

Can anybody suggest me some good King/Bradbury stories? I'm trying to get into genre stuff.