Everyone’s reminder that you can read a lot of really good iconic literature online in pdf format FOR FREE
Literally just google the name and author if you know who wrote it and there you go
Recently got around to reading Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and it went very well
I assume everyone on here has access to the internet since we’re on the internet right now, so NO EXCUSES!! Go read something interesting!! It will literally take you five minutes
My short story recommendations under the cut (with my favourites in purple):
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Charles by Shirley Jackson
The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton
The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
The Friday Everything Changed by Anne Hart
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
An Upheaval by Anton Chekhov; tr Constance Garnett
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker
The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde
Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket by Jack Finney
Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez
On the Sidewalk Bleeding by Evan Hunter
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin
The Bet by Anton Chekhov; tr Constance Garnett
The Wife's Story by Ursula Le Guin
The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
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ENJOY!! LEARN!!
(and lmk if yall want a poetry version of this list bc rahh The Raven by E.A. Poe needs to be read by *everybody*)
No because I legitimately can't think of another ship that's almost entirely pure fluff like they are
Like someone will post ranpoe angst and there will be more than one comment that's like "I THOUGHT WE DIDN'T DO ANGST WITH THESE TO" I love them so much
