A place to discussion, appreciation, recommendation of ur fav shorts.

The one that got me hooked (The Most Dangerous Game).

Thread in construction so Im open to all suggestions on what should be on OP.

George saunders is my favorite short story writer

Sherlock Holmes still undefeated

Classic and highly influential ting

The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis

Currently reading Great grandma by Ray Bradbury

One of the masters

Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed is a really underrated short from him worth checking out.

He's a professor at the College I went to. And probably the greatest living short story writer. My favorite of his is Escape from Spiderhead.

Some of my favorites over the years are

Cathedral my Raymond Carver
In The Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried by Amy Hempel
Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
Signs and Symbols by Nabokov
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates
Bullet In The Brain by Tobias Wolff

Wich one of these u recommend me?

I would say Cathedral is the only one I listed that is possibly a life changing short story. So if I had to recommend just one... However Carver's style of writing is pretty unusual and hard for some people to get into.

giuliotortello.it/ebook/cathedral.pdf

Signs and Symbols by Nabokov is the most well written of the ones I listed.

Thanks, I'll check it out then I'll tell you what I thought

I really like the minimalist style of writing and the picaresque characters, I like the ending too and I would like to know what you think of it?

Borges>>>>>. I be reading him when im out and about

Cathedral is much less elusive than Carver's other fiction, at least with what he's trying to say. I'm always very moved by the ending.

Unlike some of the other short stories I mentioned, Carver always eschews verbose language and complex metaphors in favor of sparse minimalism and there's something very unpretentious about his writing style. There are shades of Hemingway to be found in it but I think Carver takes it a step further than Hemingway. To create a story so moving with such simple writing is really amazing.

Are you familiar with Murakamis shorts? I think his opus are very similar to cathedrals.

Yes, I agree. My favorite is The Second Bakery Attack.

He's on my list for sure but I heard his style is very complicated to follow.

The Second Bakery Attack is One of the best works I've read, I heard it is a sequel but I was never able to find the predecessor.

It likely hasn't been translated into English which is why it's so hard to find.

Have you read Barn Burning? There's a great South Korean film released in 2018 based on this short story.

makes perfect sense, weebos with the w.

Yes I read it, haven't seen the movie yet but it's on my watchlist. I be peeling invisible oranges when I'm bored.

Hidden Brazilian gem

You should give him a try. Yes, he can be a little complicated, but the reason is because his stories are complex and thought-provoking. Always very interesting.

this is an especially odd one

Shortest scary story

A lady named Nancy is the last human left on planet earth. As she lays in her bed, she hears a knock on her door.

"I've already met the people I had to meet in this life," he told me. "I don't need anyone new." One of those times, the person
who invited him was a trademark and patents lawyer young enough to be
his daughter, one of those large-breasted girls who don't read and seem to go through an inevitable phase of curiosity about s***with older men. "And
you turned her down?" I asked. "Of course I turned her down. I told her I had a political meeting. 'What party?' she asked. 'The Onan ist Party,' I told her. And off she went quietly home and never bothered me again. I don't know if she found a dictionary in time, but she seems to have decided to leave me alone because she hasn't invited me to anything since. Or who knows, maybe there's a lawsuit against me, no? I can almost see the
headlines: PERVERTED PROFESSOR ASSAULTS YOUNG WOMAN
WITH BIBLICAL POLYSYLLABLES."