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[Anonymous No.5157419]

What are some "must read" short stories between 1 and 10 pages?

[Anonymous No.5157444]

>>5157419
"OP's Life: A Dire Warning

[Anonymous No.5157503]

>>5157444
This one is good, a cautionary tale about being a faggot

[Anonymous No.5157511]

>do i know the answer to op's question
>if yes, answer so everyone can see how smart i am
>if no, call op a faggot so everyone can see how dumb he is

[Anonymous No.5157512]

>>5157419
Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral by Heinrich Böll

https://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.33246!np_vol_5_article_8_by_hansjorg_bittner.pdf

[Anonymous No.5157527]

>>5157419
Read some short stories by Mark Twain.
Almost all of them are great.

[Anonymous No.5157528]

>>5157419
Italo Calvino has a lot of these

> Invisible Cities
> Numbers in the Dark
> Marcovaldo
The best collections for these.

[Anonymous No.5157538]

Read something of Karin Tidbeck, good weird fantasy stories.

[Anonymous No.5157583]

Flannery O'Connor and James Joyce both have 10/10 short stories which are quite short. For the former, try "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." For the latter, try "The Sisters" and "A Painful Case."

For Joyce, though, the most "must read" is "The Dead," but I am pretty sure that one is longer than 10 pages (maybe around 15-20).

[Anonymous No.5157770]

>>5157583
The Dead is around 40 pages long. For something short and sweet, I'd say "Araby" is a the best contender because so many of us can relate to what the character is relating, and the description of madness / frisson was just too accurate.

[Anonymous No.5157778]

>>5157419
Memnon by Voltaire

[Sebastian Cuello No.5157785]

This. One of the stories is a Cacambo's letter to Candide, in french.

[Anonymous No.5157894]

>>5157770

Holy shit, is it really? It's been a couple years since I last read it. Personally, "Araby" didn't impress me quite as much as some of the other stories, but certainly worth reading. It's super short.

[Anonymous No.5157944]

Rashoman is must read and like five pages.

[Anonymous No.5157971]

>>5157419
Hemingway wrote a good one about his time in Palestine for sale: baby Jew, asshole torn

[Anonymous No.5157973]

A Country Doctor by Kafka

[Anonymous No.5158004]

Hemingway had a bunch like that.
A Clean Well Lighted Place
Hills Like White Elephants
A Very Short Story
Cat in the Rain
In Another Country

[Anonymous No.5158079]

Goodbye My Brother by John Cheever is great.
Incarnations of Burned Children by DFW is like a page long and pretty chilling.

I remember a short story somebody posted on here by a well known author. It was about a guy talking to a little girl on the beach and they were searching for some kind of fish. In the end of the book the guy goes back to his hotel room and kills himself. If Anybody could name the story I'd be very grateful.

[Anonymous No.5158100]

>>5158079
It's A Perfect Day for Bananafish.

Raymond Carver's the shit, though his best stuff tends to run 13-15 pages. So Much Water So Close To Home and Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes are wonderful in particular.

>>5158004
That stuff, The End of Something, The Killers (which is about ten pages in publication, I believe), etc.

[Anonymous No.5158132]

>>5158100

Carver is shit m8.

[Anonymous No.5158155]

>>5157511
kek'd

[Anonymous No.5158156]

>>5158004
>A Clean Well Lighted Place

this is the best short story ever imo

in fact i'm going to read it again right now

[Anonymous No.5158162]

this short story by Gao Xingjian (chinese writer who won the 2000 nobel) is really good:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/06/02/030602fi_fiction?currentPage=all

[Anonymous No.5158271]

>>5157583
Highly recommend A Good Man Is Hard To Find. Also, Raymond Carver really is the king of the modern short story. He's just now starting to get hate on here from the edgemasters but seriously, check this out.
http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Carver_Kindling.pdf

[Anonymous No.5158326]

>>5157419
Gift of the Magi, The lottery (less than ten?) Cathedral. The Yellow Wallpaper.

[Anonymous No.5158335]

>>5158156
This might be true. It's certainly up there.

[Anonymous No.5158340]

there's a few really short lovecraft stories that i love, such as the outsider, dagon and nyarlathotep

i prefer with him when it's just a short dreamlike prose poem type affair, the longer ones test my patience a bit.

[Anonymous No.5158347]

lots and lots of borges

[Anonymous No.5158382]

A few I've read recently and liked:
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
The Finished Room by O. Henry
Forever Overhead by DFW
The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved by H.S.T.
A Boring Story by Chekhov

[Anonymous No.5158392]

Also, F.S. Fitzgerald's short stories are really great as well. Barns and Noble puts out nice story brand "Collected Stories" that combines Flappers and Philosopher and Tales From the Jazz Age for $10. I love it.

[Anonymous No.5158762]

>>5158132
yer funny
i bet u like amy hempel

[Anonymous No.5158878]

Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin.

[Anonymous No.5159022]

>>5158878
Steve Martin is such a fuckin Renaissance man. He's everything James Franco tries so hard to be except he's actually humble and seems like a nice guy. I watched Bowfinger the other day and damn that's a great movie. He's a great comedian, actor, writer, and the guy is even a very highly regard banjo player and bluegrass musician.

[Anonymous No.5159038]

“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield * “The Three-Day Blow” by Ernest Hemingway * “The Standard of Living” by Dorothy Parker * “The Saint” by V.S. Pritchett * “The Other Side of the Hedge” by E. M. Forster * “Brooksmith” by Henry James * “The Jockey” by Carson McCullers * “The Courting of Dinah Shadd” by Rudyard Kipling * “The Shot” by Alexander Poushkin * “Graven Image” by John O’Hara * “Putois” by Anatole France * “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn” by Thomas Wolfe * “A. V. Laider” by Max Beerbohm * “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson * “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe * “Looking Back” by Guy de Maupassant * “The Man Higher Up” by O. Henry * “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” by William Saroyan * “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton * “Theft” by Katherine Anne Porter * “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor * “The Man of the House” by Frank O’Connor * “The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles” by Edmund Wilson * “The Gioconda Smile” by Aldous Huxley * “The Curfew Tolls” by Stephen Vincent Bene’t * “Father Wakes Up the Village” by Clarence Day * “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” by James Joyce * “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck * “The Door” by E. B. White * “An Upheaval” by Anton Chekhov * “How Beautiful with Shoes” by Wilbur Daniel Steele * “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf * “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber * “The Schartz-Metterklume Method” by ‘Saki’ (H. H. Munro) * “The Death of a Bachelor” by Arthur Schnitzler * “The Apostate” by George Milburn * “The Phoenix” by Sylvia Townsend Warner * “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner * “The Law” by Robert M. Coates * “The Tale” by Joseph Conrad * “A Girl from Red Lion, P.A.” by H. L. Mencken * “Main Currents of American Thought” by Irwin Shaw * “The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany” * “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne * “A String of Beads” by W. Somerset Maugham * “The Golden Honeymoon” by Ring Lardner * “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” by H. G. Wells * “The Foreigner” by Francis Steegmuller * “Thrawn Janet” by Robert Louis Stevenson * “The Chaser” by John Collier *

[Anonymous No.5159043]

>>5159022
Have you read Cruel Shoes?

It's actually pretty good.

[Anonymous No.5159046]

>>5159038
>that joyce selection

they could've chosen any other story from dubliners

[Anonymous No.5159050]

>>5159038
Yeah, I read this book too.

[Anonymous No.5159054]

>>5159043
I have not but I read Pure Drivel and was really impressed. Guy kicks ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bcO1svqh_Q

[Anonymous No.5159065]

>>5159054
You can pick up a copy of Cruel Shoes pretty cheap on amazon or ebay. I recommend it.

[Anonymous No.5159070]

>>5157419
less than one page:
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/21/21f702/21F702/Cuentos/DosqueSonaron.html

great short story.

[Anonymous No.5159096]

I'm surprised to see people recommending Hemingway's "The End of Something" and "The Three-Day Blow" separately. Sure, they're longer than 10 pages when put together, but I find it hard to really enjoy one without the other.

[Anonymous No.5159101]

>>5159096
All the Nick Adams stories should be taken together, but yes, particularly those two.

Or skip on Nick Adams all together. His other short fiction is better.