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