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ITT: god tier short stories
Bonus points for PDF links
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>>7618280
>translations
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"For sale baby shoes never worn" by Ernest Hemingway

http://genius.com/Ernest-hemingway-six-word-story-annotated
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Tenth of December, George Saunders

epub: https://userscloud.com/6qibo7rylbub
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Good Old Neon, David Foster Wallace
http://stanford.edu/~sdmiller/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.pdf
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>>7618280
the dream of a ridiculous man. Dostoevsky

http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/shortfiction/RidiculousMan.pdf
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also, The Portrait by Gogol

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1045/
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>>7618310
>http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1045/

This looks interesting, thanks g
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The dead- james joyce
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
http://hermiene.net/short-stories/i_have_no_mouth.html
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>>7618280
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Garden of Forking Paths by Borges
House of Asterion, also by Borges
N. by Stephen King
The Bet by Chekov
Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Treacy

you can find the Veldt, the Bet, and Owl creek bridge with a google search
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>>7618280
Here are some I enjoy.
For Esme, With Love And Squalor - Salinger
'The Dead', and 'Araby' from Dubliners
The Balloon - Donald Barthelme
The Hitchhiking Game - Milan Kundera
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>>7618500
>Ambrose Treacey
You mean Ambrose Bierce
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>>7618742
>>7618500

Haven't heard of some of these, I will check them out, thanks
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Man who loved Islands - D.H. Lawrence
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Poe - "The Cask of Amontillado"
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>>7618280
>pdf
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Incarnations of Burned Children - David foster wallace

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CxxRIEsHFHc
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>>7618280
Idiots First, by Bernard Malamud

https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Malamud_Idiots_First.pdf
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Borges is the king of short stories and will retain this title for a very long time.
I reccomend "the last question" by Isaac Asimov
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>>7618280
By the waters of babylon
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Suicides, by Guy de Maupassant

http://www.ciudadseva.com/sevacity/stories/fr/maupassant/suicides.htm
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>>7618298
Escape from Spiderhead is the best story in that collection
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Can someone give me a story I can read in like 30 seconds? Long short stories bore me.
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>>7623190
how long is too long
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>>7623191
Anything longer than whatever the word limit for post on /lit/ is bores me. I only read short stories / books so that I can tell other people I've read them, or as a means of shoring up my self-esteem by convincing myself I'm a misunderstood intellectual whenever I feel I have no value as a human being. The shorter the better, unless it's a long one where I can read the first passage and skip to the last passage and get the "jist" of it.
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>>7623203
Sticks by George Saunders

http://www.unm.edu/~gmartin/535/Sticks.htm

Buck up anon, I think you're smart and mysterious
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El ultimo viaje del buque fantasma (you can find a translation by googling it. the last voyage of the ghost ship, cheesy as fuck name)
By G. Garcia Marquez
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>>7618280
Where am I?, Daniel Dennet

http://www.newbanner.com/SecHumSCM/WhereAmI.html
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>>7618280

I saw this book at the 2nd hand store... Did I fuck up by not buying it?
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>>7622272
nice
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Midnight in Dostoevsky by Delillo is possibly my favorite short story.
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>>7625090
Our Temporary Supervisor by Thomas Ligotti

"Corporate horror". Sorry for the big pdf.

https://libcom.org/files/Our-Temporary-Supervisor.pdf
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Here are some of my short stories.

http://www.365microfictions.com/

Sorry if some of them dont make sense, becuase I write them on spanish and i translated them myself.

Give me your thoughts about them, I need feedback to improve my skills.
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Search for Flaubert short stories, they are easy to find.
I like this one very much: http://www.online-literature.com/gustave-flaubert/2122/
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Ulan Dhor out of the first Dying Earth book.
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>>7625085
If you've never read Borges start with Ficciones, Labyrinths is just some stories from that + some stories from The Aleph.

>>7625100
>>7625139
These look interesting, thanks anons
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>>7618742
>The Dead and Araby
and A Painful Case, aka the most underrated piece of JJ writing ever.
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>>7618300
This.

When you're ready to graduate from GON, read The Soul is not a Smithy:
>http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/76419968521/the-soul-is-not-a-smithy-by-david-foster

and disregard the fact that it's on tumblr
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"Tlon, Ubqar, Orbis Tertius" by Borges. Obligatory mention of the greatest short story in "history".
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