what is /lit/'s favorite short story?
I am legend
>>25124005More of a novella to be real with you.
For sale: baby underwear. Cum-stained.
>>25123995Bolaño's 'Last Evenings on Earth'
>>25124241Why the fuck would you post this?
>>25123995The wall by Sartre
In the garden of the North American martyrsTobias Woolf
>>25123995Bartleby
>>25123995Young Titans by Nescio.
>>25124239It's short. It's a story. Ergo you fatso, it's a short story.
>>25124547Short is relative. Meanwhile the average novella is 90-120 pages long. I Am Legend is about 90 pages so it's a novella in my book. A novelette would be about 30-80 pages, just for reference.
The Yellow Wallpaper
>>25123995Sredni Vashtar
baby for sale never worn
I recently read The Cask of Amontillado or whatever it's called by Poe. It was the first story of his I read that was remotely scary/ disturbing. He is a really skilled writer but his stories are either super tame, or he ends up just randomly babbling endlessly. This story however was completely to the point, no extra words, exactly as much as it should have been. A nearly perfectly executed short story.
>>25124241For sale: baby. Worn.
>>25123995Gotta be Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius or The Dead for me
For sale: adult size diapers. Shit and cum stained.
>>25123995In most probabilities Nevsky Prospect by Gogol
>>25123995The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
Fuck off Elephantfag
>>25124898Schizoid lore
>>25124910Stop shilling yourself elephantfagYou even tried to slyly rename yourself "elephant anon" you disingenous rat
>>25124958Nobody knows who you’re crying about I’m not your bogeyman
>>25123995A Pail Of Air, but only with the original ending. The other ending ruins it.
Kafka's Hunger Artist, Melville's Bartleby or Joyce's Little Cloud
>>25125038Fuck off elephantfag
>>25123995The Rats in the Walls
>>25124276I read this collection a while back and remember very little from it. Should I give it a reread?>>25123995In The Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried by Amy Hempel
>>25123995Putas Asesinas by Bolaño.
>>25123995Ward no. 6 or death and the compass.
>>25125148Who’s this elephant and how did he manage to break you so hard?
>>25124239We don't talk like that here.
>>25123995There Will Come Soft Rains is up there.
>>25123995After the Ball by Leo Tolstoy. Artistic perfection.
The House of Asterion
For sale: baby.
>>25126007this elephant bullshit out of nowhere just had me spill my coffee to be honestgood job
For sale.
For sale: baby shoes. Worn, smelly and stinky (yum)
>>25126117Few years ago OP bought a book bound in elephant hide, OP did not know elephant hide is a type of paper and he thought he had bought some rare and expensive edition, memes ensued. OP then proceeded to manipulate his mom into funding his Dunsany collection and each time he got a new book, he made a thinly veiled thread on book collecting that was really about him and he would post a great number of photos of the book his mom bought him. His last threads did not go over so well and he is now trying to be more creative about it but the point of the thread is really that he wants anons to ask about his bookshelf that he made sure to keep visible in the photo. For what ever reason, OP just can't seem to understand that making it about himself is what causes the pushback, had he showed a genuine interest in the books posted by other anons in his collecting threads, some of them would have responded in kind. But he just spammed his own threads until he triggered the autists.
>>25125152For me it's The Outsider. Absolutely LOVE the skeleton danse at the end of that one. Tight little story that manages to pack in a lot of dread, too.
>>25123995gift of the magi, fuckers
K. J. Parker: The Last Witness
a good man is hard to find
>>25126163Stop crying nigger. You are making /lit/ look pathetic. This is who represents us? A schizo who cries about shit that happened years ago?
>>25123995this sucks. reads like ai. the "upon" mangles the flow of the first sentence, and his descriptions have no character, no connection to the ethos of the english language. what a waste of time
>>25126243Hrmmm…/lit/ is all AI bot posts now isn’t it
>>25126163its not my mom's money. my mom died like 29 years ago.
>>25126252what's wrong in your life that you have to come here and pretend to read bad books?
>>25126297>sage, shitposts, demeans real /lit/ threads>slides frog tranny shit like >>25125579/lit/ has been under siege by this tranny raid for years now.
>>25124241Babies wear nappies, or if you're a burger "diapers"
>>25126330>>trannytry to go three posts without bringing up trannies. i believe in you. also you're like 20. it would be funny to hear your newfag ass rant about board integrity if it weren't so enervatingly typical
>>25126339Is the 20 year old in the room with us
>>25126163You sound new to 4chan. A common misconception of newfags is that OP has to interact with the people in his thread. Less than 1% of users of 4chan make threads. Threads are merely a portal for users to interact with each other.
The student by Chekhov
Of mice and menThe PearlBut those are novellas I guess and not "short stories" so I'll go with pic related
take your pick
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Young Goodman Brown
The Masque of Red Death
the wendigo
>>25126536>my feet! my fiery feet! my burning fiery feet of fire!
>>25126539brings a tear to my eye every tiem
>>25123995Always Overhead by DFW
>>25126235>>25126286>>25126370Fuck off elephantfag
LEARN TO ROTATE IMAGES YOU TROGLODYTEalso Borges' "El Aleph"
>>251265984chan removes such data now sar
A Clean Well Lighted Place
>>25123995Rustico and alibech by Boccaccio
My Kinsman Major Molineux, Roger Melvin’s Burial, The Hollow of the Three Hills and Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
