21 Short Stories That Are As Insane As They Are Succinct
Longer works of fiction are often touted as the best that literature has to offer, but more pages don’t necessarily mean higher quality — just ask Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft and the wordsmith who dared to post “almonds is wood” on Twitter.
Thankfully, short stories exist. They don’t require the narrative fluff of novels or disturbing celebrity autobiographies, and many of them have the ability to mindfuck the reader in just a few short bits, rendering their brain changed forever.
So, if you have a few spare minutes and want your mind effectively blown, you’re in luck: Redditors got together to recommend some life-changing reads. Whether it’s a tale about a priest on a space ship or a bottomless pit in a field, these are the insane micro stories you’ve got to read.
La Noche Boca Arriba
The Rats in the Walls
He-y, Come on Ou-t!
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Jaunt
The Nine Billion Names of God
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
All You Zombies
An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge
A Colder War
The Star
The Veldt
The Last Question
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
All Summer in a Day
The Sniper
The Egg
Flowers for Algernon
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
