What's your favourite short story, Veeky Forums?

what's your favourite short story, Veeky Forums?

mine is 'fun with a stranger' by richard yates

please feel free to share what you like so much about your favourite

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This rests on the border but revolutionary road is one of my favorites.

Does anyone know when exactly you can call a "book" for short story?

novella

I like "No Thanks, Man" by Hermann Melville

revolutionary road is definitely a full novel, but i'm glad you like it.

Recently enjoyed The Deep by Anthony Doerr in an otherwise pretty mediocre collection of short stories.

Library of Babel by Borges or maybe In The Penal Colony by Kafka.

Kleist in Thun by Robert Walser or maybe The Mark on the Wall by Woolf.

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What Men Live By. It's the most beautiful story ever written about man's love for his fellow man. Just go read it.

I know this great little gem called THE LAST QUESTION by Isaac Asimov. I don't know who he is but that story is amazing!

I'm partial to Bartleby by Melville by I also love these:

enjoyed it a lot. i hadn't read any Tolstoy before, is this similar to what he is normally like?

I want to rub my cheeks on those furry arms.

The Killers by Hemmingway is up there. Canavan'a Backyard by Joesph Payne Brennan is another that comes to mind

are there any other short stories like that?

Eveline by Joyce is probs mine
that or Toby Litt's The Monster

La Peur by Maupassant.

Either Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote or El Inmortal, both by Borges

This is great. So's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

My personal favourite is Hemingway's "Indian Camp" though.

English: that one by Barbara Gowdy.

Spanish: the one with the guy who puts on his bright yellow tie, puts an ant on it, and parades past his rival's house to make him jealous.

French: that one by the guy the old french President loved so much, this one:

To Build a Fire by Jack London

Kek.
Theologians by Borges. Very underrated.

Why do you like it. It's just about a dumb machine and some asshole. I read it and it wasn't a goooooodddd story

that was pretty great user, any more suggestions?

the nine billion names of god

Tolstoy wrote a lot of short stories like that, simple but with a moral, for the peasants he owned (lol). Try How Much Land Does A Man Need?, Alyosha the Pot and one of my other favourites, Master and Man.

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