Screw Me In Shucks

SCR | she/her | a nerd who likes musicals

[fuchsiamae]

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

[repulsion-gel]

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am

[allyitis]

the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”

[fuchsiamae]

wHat did I just put my eyes on

[schrodingers-rufus]

“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone

[w3rewolf-th3rewolf]

Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

[rebel-against-reality]

“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates

[actuallyapathy]

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

[asexualzoro]

the lottery by shirley jackson

[eccentwrit]

i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf

[idlewildly]

Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.

[bravinto]

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

[siderealsandman]

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

[insanitysbloomings]

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

[felderwin]

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury 

[was-once-somewhere-else]

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme

[jeaniefranklins]

I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson

[real-faker]

Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke

[scarlettaagni]

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)

[ghostloner]

Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger

[nitrosplicer]

The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.

Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.

Also going to recommend For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny, a commentary on whether AI can become human in a future without humans: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

[cryingalonewithfrankenstein]

whoever posted “The Laughing Man” and “A Good Day For Bananafish” is Correct

[fluffmugger]

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger (I assume you meant Stockton’s The lady or the  tiger?)

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

The Tell-Tale Heart

 The Gift of the Magi

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County

 Thank You Ma'am

The box social 

The Veldt

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Harrison Bergeron

Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

Where are you going and where have you been

The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

The lottery by shirley jackson

The Landlady

The Leader

Ett halvt ark papper.

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

A Sound of Thunder 

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream 

All Summer in a Day 

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts

The Star 

Lamb to the Slaughter

The laughing man 

A perfect day for bananafish

The City (link goes to compendium of short stories)

Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom 

For A Breath I Tarry 

[the-prince-of-tides]

All of Flannery O'Connor’s shorts.

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.

[halbereth]

Adding to the list of Bradbury: “There Will Come Soft Rains”

[destinaf]

The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke. (I never re-read it and suspect if I did, I’d find it had issues, but I still think about the ending.)

[thegertie]

“W.S.” by L.P. Hartley

“Lost Hearts” by M.R. James

“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” by Edgar Allan Poe

[jaywings]

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

[babycharmander]

My Father’s Hands by Calvin R. Worthington

[pengychan]

In the Vault, by  H. P. Lovecraft.

[achamocha]

The Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga

[tzikeh]

What a Thought! by Shirley Jackson

[thewholeguacamole]

There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury

[fernacular]

Singing my Sister Down - Margo Lanagan

[lakevida]

i understand the cicada noises but out of respect for their privacy i will not be translating

[shittysawtraps]

James Patterson. You've 'written' over 200 books. You have 5 days to read all of them before the trap door below you will open, dropping you into a hoard of angry librarians and bookstore employees. This is impossible. Have fun <3

[coughloop]

group of people wake up in a saw trap and one of them starts just killing the other ones and ripping them apart and eating them and mashing their corpses together before the video feed even starts and jigsaw logs into his little zoom he has set up to talk to the people and explain the rules and its just the guy left gnawing on a human bone and jigsaw never does another one of those fucking traps again

[coughloop]

artistic rendition

[hobnob-69]

How is your husband?

He should be fine I left him with enough food and water for a week

[the-real-santino-rice]

That was two weeks ago

[hobnob-69]

Oh god no let me go check on him

[hobnob-69]

By Talos this can’t be happening

[imagefragrance]

i’m not saying i’m better than you…. but my url has no dashes and i’m a natural brunette 

[softschofield]

i’m curious! reblog this and tag your favourite scene in 1917, your favourite soundtrack score, your favourite secondary/minor character (or top 5), the moment you first knew you loved the film, and blake or schofield

[softschofield]

i’m curious! reblog this and tag your favourite scene in 1917, your favourite soundtrack score, your favourite secondary/minor character (or top 5), the moment you first knew you loved the film, and blake or schofield

[softschofield]

i’m curious! reblog this and tag your favourite scene in 1917, your favourite soundtrack score, your favourite secondary/minor character (or top 5), the moment you first knew you loved the film, and blake or schofield

[softschofield]

i’m curious! reblog this and tag your favourite scene in 1917, your favourite soundtrack score, your favourite secondary/minor character (or top 5), the moment you first knew you loved the film, and blake or schofield

[softschofield]

i’m curious! reblog this and tag your favourite scene in 1917, your favourite soundtrack score, your favourite secondary/minor character (or top 5), the moment you first knew you loved the film, and blake or schofield

[softschofield]

i’m curious! reblog this and tag your favourite scene in 1917, your favourite soundtrack score, your favourite secondary/minor character (or top 5), the moment you first knew you loved the film, and blake or schofield

[commodorecliche]

is this lady fucking safe??????????

[commodorecliche]

GOD IT GETS SO MUCH WORSE:

“your comfort in this process is irrelevant”

[notgeorgelucas]

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

[a-wild-osborne]

The only things I could possibly suggest in this case would be to call the agency he supposedly sees to verify that he’s even going there at all because as his spouse, she should be privy to non-specific questions about attendance (not even asking the day or what time he goes), or tbh she should give those two assholes what they clearly want: disappear from their lives by divorcing him after the birth and leaving his name off the certificate. Fuck those dudes, they need therapy for real.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Yeah, she should ban then from the delivery room (and also from her life from that point onwards), not just because you really don’t want all the weird funerary vibes at such a vulnerable moment, but because the FIL at least, and probably the husband, is definitely trying to kill her.

I mean come on, he’s trying to ban her from using pain medication during the delivery, and claiming that medical intervention is inherently bad. That’s not going to guarantee that she dies in childbirth, but it’ll certainly increase her chances. And if they’re willing to do that, then what’s really stopping them from finishing them off some other way if it doesn’t work?

[loracarol]

if you want to read the whole thing, the thread is here. 

tbh I’m keeping an eye on it to bc I really really hope she doesn’t die.

[vaguely-problematic]

i feel that she is profoundly unsafe. all those things of hers they’re packing up? she should have them sent to her mom’s (or sis or whatever) - and then she herself should also go to her mom’s. move the hell OUT of that situation; file for divorce omg.

ban them from the delivery room? hell she should get a court order against them being near her anywhere at all.

this is bad.

[cyberdramon]

Reading through this I’m convinced that the FIL straight up killed his wife, the fact that he not only doesn’t take her life and comfort into consideration, seemingly bragged about being a single dad and to top it off, has raised his son to be an almost carbon copy of himself is horrifying. I hope she gets herself out of this situation and gets restraining orders on both of them bc Jesus Christ

[justnoodlefishthings]

[jeshire-deactivated20230502]

YO there was an update to this a while back - she’s staying with her parents and filing for divorce.

[mygeekcorner]

oh thank fuck

[dyalani]

Glad she got out of that because holy fuck that’s messed up.

[demonsidebitch-deactivated20210]

THANK FUCK

[dadbodbobby]

THANK FUCKING GOD

[majokkomaimun]

oh praise the gods, hope she never has to see or hear from them again

[alternativemlm]

Billie Joe Armstrong literally wrote a song about coming out as bisexual as a teenager, and then like two years later wrote one that was pretty much all about dressing up in drag and getting fucked by/fucking guys, and y'all STILL say he’s a “straight ally” because he married a woman??

[pavelchekovswig]

[coldwarfem]

The same goes for Freddy Mercury and David Bowie. Both were openly bi. Both wrote (multiple) songs about their queerness. Both are pigeonholed as either “gay” or “straight”. They were both neither of those things.

[flagellant]

hey remember when freddy mercury wrote a literal song about wanting to be allowed to be bisexual without it being a big deal and was incredibly obvious about it and then straighties went “oh lol look at how quirky queen is writing a song all about bicycles!”

[charlie-in-a-beanie]

This also happened to p!nk, she’s openly bisexual but since she’s married to a man and has had two babies with him, people say that she’s straight.

Like, yeah she does a lot and shows a lot of support for the LGBT+ community but she isn’t just an ally, she’s part of that community.

Biphobia is completely real and so many Bi wlw and mlm are assigned the “straight” role when they just ARENT.

[prince-spence]

[pepperpatrol]

Also let’s add Lady Gaga to the mix. She’s repeatedly shit on for Born this Way for not being part of the community when she is, in fact, openly bisexual and writes song about being LGBT

[holyfunnyhistoryherring]

[Image 1: the “It’s free real estate” guy with the altered caption “It’s Biphobia”

Image 2: a picture of Chris Fleming with the altered caption “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that ‘Bicycle Race’ was about being bi or was I just supposed to learn that from a post about Billie Joe Armstrong myself?” End ID.]

[brunhiddensmusings]

its baffling that bisexuality is considered ‘invisible’ when theres a whole pantheon of the most loud rhinestone bedazled spectacles of entertainment being openly vocal that theyre bi its like a simpsons bit where everyone ignores the blinking neon sign

[patricksmother]

cant go a day without thinking of ms katherine plumber

[stevenkodalys]

christian’s costumes

[stevenkodalys]

darling, i think you better shut up and dance with me