Whats your favorite short story /lit/? For me, its a tie between Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
"Ugly," Joyce Carol Oates
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probably The Immortal by Borges or The River by Flannery O'Connor
How Much Land Does A Man Need?
A Painful Case
Whatever the one sci-fi story is about the aliens who come to Earth looking for resources is.And the aliens end up being crusaders who've come to Mexico to look for gold
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>I was in English 101: The Short Story Collection
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The Most Dangerous Game
Theologians by Borges.
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I can't choose (for different reasons) between Chejov, Borges and Cortazar.
I think that Chejov has the best, Borges the mindblowings and Cortazar the Iwanttofuckyouallnightgirl
The swimmer - John Cheever
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Rather than using your strawman argument, what is bad about the stories I posted in the OP? You're a literary hipster if you just hate them because they're popular or "entry level".
Shakespeare's Memory
For Esmé – with Love and Squalor
The Judgement
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For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.
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How the fuck does an elephant get in such a situation? How do you defend yourself from a train?
Bartleby is great, but GOAT short story writers are Borges and Gogol.
I like 'The Jaunt'.
