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>age
>location
>favorite short story

>> No.8095709

22
Virginia, USA
Araby by Joyce or In the Penal Colony by Kafka

>> No.8095714

24
Connecticut
The red headed league. A c Doyle

>> No.8095715

27
your mum's house
The day I fucked your mum

>> No.8095717

21
Dublin, Ireland
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London

>> No.8095718

>>8095706
25
SoCal
The Circular Ruins by Borges or Kaleidoscope by Bradbury

>> No.8095721

21
DC
The Bucket Rider by Kafka

>> No.8095723

>>8095706
19
Nashville, Tennessee
The Pedersen Kid

>> No.8095741
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18
M
Signs and Symbols/Symbols and Signs by Vladmir Nabakov although I think Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut is super relevant today

>> No.8095748

>>8095741
Sorry, never finished. Massachusetts, US

>> No.8095752

>>8095718
Where in SoCal?

>> No.8095755
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>20
>Rhode Island, USA
>Harrison Bergeron

>> No.8095757

>>8095748
ayy me too

you a pioneer valley nigga?

>> No.8095787

>>8095752
661

>> No.8095796

Age
Place I live
Story I've selected expressly to flaunt my patricianism

>> No.8095807

>>8095796
Sounds like you had nothing to say in the first place my man

>> No.8095808

24
New York, NY (Manhattan)
The Necklace

>> No.8095839

>>8095807
>my man
Oh jesus not you again you edgy motherfucker

>> No.8095845

>>8095839
I'm just a lurker. Who are you referencing?

>> No.8095871
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OR, central
Johnny Mnemonic

>> No.8096163

19
Small Village in NY
The Last Question

>> No.8096175

24
San Antonio
Grace - James Joyce

>> No.8096178

>>8095706
24, chicago, tlon uqbar orbis tertius

>> No.8096194

18
Sydney, Australia
Winter Dreams by Fitzgerald

>> No.8096196

26
HK
Penal Colony by Kafka
Hush! by Chekhov

>> No.8096213

19
New Zealand
Sonny's Blues by Baldwin

>> No.8096218

19
Chicago
Paper Pills -- Sherwood Anderson

>> No.8096219

23
Toronto, Canada
A Perfect Day For Bananafish by Salinger

>> No.8096227

>>8095706
22
South Carolina
The Old Man and the Sea

>> No.8096277

>>8096227
>The Old Man and the Sea

That's a novella, tbß

>> No.8096391 [DELETED] 

>>8095706
16
Pennsylvania, Filthadelphia
Araby or The Bear

>> No.8096397

23
Kolkata, India
I have no mouth but I must scream by Harlan Ellison

>> No.8096519
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>>8096391
>16
Underage get out

>> No.8096571

>32
>england
>fun with a stranger by richard yates

>> No.8096580

23
Wellington, New Zealand
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

>> No.8096582

>>8095706
28
Philippines
Quadraturin

>> No.8096586

>25
>socal
>bartleby the scrivener

>> No.8096654
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Houston
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - my man, George Borges

>> No.8096658

20
melbourne
patriotism

>> No.8096671

>>8096582
>KlYr/MIPjaz
It ain't easy to find a fellow lover of literature in the pretty hell hole that is our country.

>> No.8096682

>>8095741
Thank you for that story.

What a brilliant, fucked-up, good story.

>> No.8096684

>>8096671
I only talk to my dad, my previous /lit/ teachers, and this board when it comes to literature.

The books are cheap when you have the diligence to search for them, though, since no one else reads good books.

Good day!

>> No.8096787

27
Oswiecim, Poland
The Jaunt by Stephen King

>>8096397
Read that too, quite good.

>> No.8096795

19
Oxford
Herzog- Saul Bellow

>> No.8096797

24
Netherlands
In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

>> No.8097761

20
Germany
A Little Cloud (Joyce)

>> No.8097775

>>8095706
>who cares
>wanna fuck?

The Great Wall of China by Kafka. Its probably the most comprehensive and metaphysical piece of short fiction

>> No.8097778

>>8096654
Well except maybe that one but I still think Great Wall just feels more massive in scale

>> No.8097794

18/f
cali
portrait of the children

>> No.8097798

24
NY
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, by Delmore Schwartz

>> No.8097814

20
UK
Shakespeare's Memory

>> No.8097823

18
Russia
Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out by Le Guin, and plenty more by her.

>> No.8097893

>>8096397
That's a damn good one
The video game is also very good

>> No.8098002

I like that one Bradbury wrote about the kids on Venus or whatever that never seen the sun

>> No.8098105

24
SoCal
A Good Man is Hard to Find

>> No.8098111

23
NYC
"The Shot" by Pushkin

>> No.8098164

24
Sweden
In der Strafenkolonie.

>> No.8098636

>22
>Oregon
>Killing an Elephant or The Aleph

>> No.8098916

>>8095706
26
Buenos Aires, Argentina
El incivil maestro de ceremonias Kotsuké no Suké. Borges

>> No.8098924

22
NYC
'The Veteran' by Frederick Forsyth

>> No.8098967

>>8095706

>1000 years in my soul
>a house
>The Overcoat by Gogol

>> No.8099279

>>8095723
i live in spring hill, how are all the kurds doing up there?

>> No.8099303

>>8095714
W-where in CT, anon?

>> No.8099317
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19
Texas
The Father by Raymond Carver

>> No.8099320

>>8095706

>21
>literally L O N D O N
>The house of Asterion, by Borges

>> No.8099330

>>8097794
Horry fuck you just had to mention that you're a girl despite the question not asking for your gender

>> No.8099333

>>8095757
I go to MIT but am from So Cal. Thinking of transferring DESU

>> No.8099339

While we're on the subject of short stories, what are the god tier short story writers? Preferably people who wrote predominately short stories or essays.

Right now, the only ones I can think of are:
>Borges
>O'Connot
>Chekhov
>Kafka

>> No.8099346

>age
24
>location
wi, usa
>favorite short story
cortes and montezuma, barthelme

>> No.8099363

>21
>Spokane, Wa
>Here and There, David Foster Wallace

>> No.8099383

21
Massachusetts
Came here to post this >>8096397

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>18
>Texas
>I have no mouth and I must scream

>> No.8099512

>>8095787
You from Bakersfield senpai?

>> No.8099538

>>8099303
203

>> No.8099567

>>8099512
ah shit. yep

>> No.8099586

>>8099538
Me too. What town?

>> No.8099594
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8099594

>20
>Vancouver, BC, Canada
>The World (This One), the Flesh (Mrs. Oedipa Maas), and the Testament of Pierce Inverarity

>> No.8099603

>>8096797
my nigga

>> No.8099610
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8099610

>>8099567
Got family there so I recognize the area code

>> No.8099612

What is the purpose of these topics? Zero discussion of literature ever takes place in them. At least Gassposters and Harrisposters prompt _some_ discussion of books, even if it's usually low quality.

>> No.8099615
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8099615

20
Americlap USA
Homers oddessy tied with hobbes Leviathan

>> No.8099621

25
Eastern Canada
Spotted Horses, Faulkner
also
The Distance to the Moon, Calvino

>> No.8099731

19
Bogotá, Colombia
El Inmortal, Borges / Una Flor Amarilla, Cortazar

>> No.8099761

>>8099612
well what did you expect, dummy? /soc/ is a board made exclusively for meetups, if you want do discuss literature maybe head to:
>>>/lit/

>> No.8099774

>>8095706
33
Peru
Notebook Found in a Deserted House - Robert Bloch

>> No.8099796

24
Cavan Monaghan Ontario
This Nabokov story

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/05/15/symbols-and-signs

>> No.8099885

18
Alaska
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Hadji Murat

>> No.8099949

>>8099612

>>>/Reddit/

>> No.8099975

24
Northen IL
In the Penal Colony by Kafka or The Renegade by Camus

>> No.8100676

24
Croatia
The Overcoat

>> No.8100678

>>8095706
41
England
The Master and Margarita

>> No.8101211

19
England
In the Penal Colony

>> No.8101303

24
Connecticut
I Could See The Smallest Things

>> No.8101349

20
Canada
The Third Expedition by Ray Bradbury

>> No.8101366

>>8096163
My nigger.

19
Berkeley, CA
The Last Question by Asimov or Other People by Gaiman

>> No.8101388

>>8095706
45
Colorado, USA
Borges, 'The Library of Babel'

>> No.8101430

>>8095706
19
Netherlands
The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov

>> No.8101509

>>>/soc/

>> No.8101583

>>8095808
What a tweeest

>> No.8101600

>>8098002
Holy shit, I remember reading that in middleschool, do you have any clue what it was called

>> No.8101605

>>8099339
Guy de maupassant

>> No.8101609

>>8098002
>>8101600
It's "All Summer in a Day".

>> No.8101621

17
Ann Arbor
The Dead

>> No.8101624

>>8095706
19
VIC, Australia
The Music of The Moon by Thomas Ligotti

>> No.8101650

>>8099339

Gogol