Recommend excellent short stories.
Recommend excellent short stories
pleb with basic taste coming through
Charles Perrault - Sleeping Beauty
Voltaire - Micromegas
Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle
Edgar Allan Poe - The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Hans Christian Andersen - The Snow Queen
Fritz Leiber - all the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories from Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death
Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor - Everything That Rises Must Converge
Parables of Jesus.
almost anything by: Borges, Kafka, Cortazar, Moore, Davis, Barthelme, Carter.
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Anything by W. Somerset Maugham
Cheever's
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
At Your Service - Julio Cortazar
Orientation - Daniel Orozco
On the Rainy River - Tim O'Brian
The Angel Esmerelda - Don Dellilo (its a short story also)
For Emse - With Love and Squalor - J.D. Salinger
Pushkin's. Queen of Spades and other stories. Gogol's too. Begin with The Nose.
Eileen Chang - Jasmine Tea