give me links to short stories that blew your mind
>>7883938
One day a dumb stoner frogposter from tumblr decided to make a shitty thread
“The Father” by Raymond Carver
I haven't a fucking clue why, but occasionally I just think about it and my eyes start to get wet
>>7883938
A Rose for Emily by Bill Faulkner
>>7883938
Dumb frogposter
links ?
>>7884046
Here you go, buddy.
A Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
It changed the way I approach writing and reading
http://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Wolff,%20Bullet%20in%20the%20Brain.pdf
thanks
>>7883938
The Yellow Wallpaper
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm
This inspired Robert Chambers. Feminists think that it is "empowering." But it is really just about some bitch who goes totally bonkers.
It's a good read.
link for the yellow wallpaper won't load
a bullet in the brain was cool, hit me in the feels
>>7884182
You could just google it.
>>7884176
feminists don't think it's "empowering" you cretin. they think it's an accurate representation of the effects patriarchy has on the female mind.
>>7884176
You'd redpilled that shit . I bet C.P. Gilman didn't even know that. Thanks for mansplainin it
yeah i did
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm
reading it now
>>7884191
>>7884194
https://infinitemirai.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/young-robert-f-the-dandelion-girl.pdf
>>7884182
Your threshold for giving up is really low. You should probably just kill everyone at Batman V Superman screening .
http://www.vernandsisters.com/adenoma-brothers.html
i don't get the yellow wallpaper was she crazy or what ?
>>7884250
No anon she was oppressed by the existential transcendental branch of the neo-masculine misogynistic patriarchy and their capitalistic-materialism set loose on a fragile idealistic feminine empowered mind.
Jesus it is almost like you literally don't know how to read.
>>7884182
Glad you liked it. Those last few paragraphs have followed me around for years--probably will for many more.
>>7884250
Made crazy, yes. Her depression was thought of as a symptom of her gender and treated with a prescription of inactivity and isolation. The result was hysteria. Don't listen to people that hate on it because they view it as feminist proselytizing. It's reactionary to the treatment of women at the time and indicative of what the reality was--that, and it's pretty damn freaky.
dandelion girl was sweet
>>7884268
>Expecting anything from a dumb frogposter
>Enabling him even
>>7884295
i realize what you're doing but it really botheres me when people try hard to put as many intelligent-sounding words into a sentence as they possibly can.
The Immortal - Borges
The Moons of Jupiter - Munro
many from Chekhov
http://www.akirarabelais.com/vi/o/thelibraryofbabel/borges/immortal.html
>>7884319
2nd these suggestions—Borges, Munro, Chekhov: all beyond super short story writers.
I'd also like to add: Last Stories and Other Story by Vollmann, The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, Cosmicomics by Calvino, The Colour out of Space by Lovecraft, and Good Old Neon by DFW.
>>7884317
If the word is accurate, it's accurate. Intent and clarity are what matter, not how many syllables are in a word.
This one.
http://www.online-literature.com/gustave-flaubert/2122/
>>7883938
try gogol
>>7883938
http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
>>7883938
The Ocean is full of Bowling Balls by JD Salinger
Kholstomer by Tolstoy
White Nights by Dostoevsky
Alyosha the Pot by Tolstoy
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
The Swimmer by John Cheever
I'm on my phone now but will reply with links later.
>>7884191
>feminists don't think it's "empowering" you cretin. they think it's an accurate representation of the effects patriarchy has on the female mind.
when did 4chan become Facebook?
>>7884073
Good post, I can't see it affecting me as intensely as it did for you, but strong nonetheless.
Good Old Neon - David Foster Wallace
this particular short story is fantastic at describing all the things that seemed beyond expression
>>7885065
http://stanford.edu/~sdmiller/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.pdf
I was Trying to Describe You to Someone, by Richard Brautigan
http://brautigan.tumblr.com/post/85775192/i-was-trying-to-describe-you-to-someone-by
>>7883938
"Loopy" by Ruth RendellIt's about a nebbish, henpecked man who decides to become a secret fursuiting furry, but is found out by his mom. His mom decides to be a furry too and they have sex and then kill and eat somebody. No, I am not kidding and this story is before the Internet.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/05/15/symbols-and-signs
>>7884317
I don't think he was trying particularly hard to do what it is you're describing. They were all aptly used and none of them were particularly long or complicated.
>>7884948
I mean he's right. If this were facebook, I'd be pointing out the fact that the patriarchy made me assume anon was male.
>>7885104
It's not "the patriarchy"
http://fibreculturejournal.org/wp-content/pdfs/FCJ-158Vyshali%20Manivannan.pdf
The last question. Issac Asiimov.
>>7884216
I remember the first time I read this in early high school and really liked it. Reread it a year ago and was pretty unimpressed with the actual writing of it. Still, has some nostalgic merit for me
>>7883996
A Small, Good Thing is a masterpiece
http://christchurchlr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/A-Small-Good-Thing.pdf
"Michael furey goes for a jog"
>>7884343
>Suggesting this plebbishness instead of 'Tlön, Ubqar, Orbis Tertius'
>>7885065
After you've become sufficiently post-ironic by that near-perfect last sentence, move on to 'The Soul is not a Smithy'.
>>7884915
This anon knows whats up
Also:
The Hunger Artist - Kafka
A Goof Day for Bananfish - Salinger
Anything from Dubliners - Joyce
Anything from Flannery O'Connor
Kobo Abe
F Scott Fitzgerald has some great short stories
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/el-ultimo-lobo
http://thomasaquinas.edu/pdfs/alumni/everything-that-rises.pdf
I'm not sure if it was this story or another, but there's a recording of O'Connor reading one (some?) of her stories that I would recommend checking out. It makes a huge difference to hear her inflection, the rhythm of the dialogue, the dialect as she intended it, and most of all the humor.
damn the machine was hard core
However, the predominant interpretation[5] is that the story inveigles the reader into an attempt at deciphering the details and thus "over-reading", which is "another, milder form of referential mania".[6]
cool story
the story of the eye by george bataille
it's so fucked up and pornographic, and it's incredibly intense as a result, but it really changed a lot for me
http://ps28.squat.net/bataille_story_of_eye.pdf
>>7884915
the swimmer by john cheever omg yes boy knows
>>7885104
but there are no anons on facebook
i looked up what story of the eye is about wtf I'm not gonna read that shit u got me fucked
>>7886721
but they shove eyes in vaginas and strangle priests while straddling them good
>>7884915
>The Ocean is full of Bowling Balls by JD Salinger
Unforunately Hachette (Salinger's publishing company) has been extremely aggressive in taking copies of this on the internet down, but it can be found very easily on most torrenting sites. Sorry, but it's worth the download.
>Kholstomer by Tolstoy
http://www.lrgaf.org/training/kholstomer.htm
>White Nights by Dostoevsky
http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/4394/
>Alyosha the Pot by Tolstoy
http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2729/
>Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
>The Swimmer by John Cheever
https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Cheever_Swimmer.pdf
Some more additions:
>Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Readings/139.105/Additional/Hills%20Like%20White%20Elephants%20-%20Ernest%20Hemingway.pdf
>The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
http://pages.uoregon.edu/eherman/teaching/texts/OBrien_TheThingsTheyCarried.pdf
This also includes "Speaking of courage", which is also a hauntingly good story.
>No Exit by Jean-Paul Satre
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/olli/class-materials/Jean-Paul_Sartre.pdf
"Hell is others"
I'll come back as more come into my head, short stories are my favorite medium and I believe they require the most skill.
Its cliche probably but "nice day for bananafish" was sublime
>>7884915
I just read The Swimmer.
Pleasant read, but that ending...
racist tree, nice
Repercussions of Evil
By Peter Chimaera
John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them, now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships, daddy."
Dad said "NO! YOU WILL BE KILL BY DEMONS!"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons.
"This is Joson," the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!"
So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US," said the demons!
"I will shoot at him," said the Cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the demons," he shouted!
The radio said "No, John. You are the demons."
And then, John was a Zombie.
i don't get the ending about the swimmer
>>7887198
It's the slow culmination of the events that define Neddy's life. As he swims from upscale event to event, he slowly deteriorates in the reader's eyes - from an upper-class prefect to a centless drunk. When he's finally deposited at his home - the ultimate culmination and centerpiece in Cheever's picket-fence neighborhood - he finds it empty and as an outsider looking in.
He's far from what we have believed him to be.
http://www.thecommononline.org/issues/issue-02/macario
>>7887089
thank you anon for doing this
>>7885065
I really really liked this
