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you can tell jud is a catholic because he keeps feeling guilty and confessing to stuff he's not responsible for

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

redd956

25 Fucked Up Short Stories Reading LIst

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

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

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson

The Girl with the Green Ribbon by Alvin Schwartz

End of the Game by Julio Cortazar

Extinction is Forever by Louise Lawrence

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

To Build a Fire by Jack London

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Conner

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Conner

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

There Will Come Soft Rain by Ray Bradbury

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

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

lakevida

i went to navy pier as a child and clowns took my father away and built a table out of him with three other dads and i always thought this was some unpleasant and vivid dream and i mentioned it to my mom one day a couple years ago and she was like Yaa when we went to chicago they made him do chair tricks with other men

they did this to him

achillesinhighheels

Training my nervous system to choose an unfamiliar heaven instead of a familiar hell

senso1954

this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

deseretgear

Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison

kirbymongerr

Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck

beardedmrbean

silken-scarves

Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it

Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.

In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.

To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.

There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.

headspace-hotel

This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.

anarchautistic

Final shot is the bird hearing, but not seeing, the sound of a .32 ACP pistol, and flying away in shock

lilmaneater

"From the studio that brought you Goncharov...."

yeahokayillreblogthat

yeah okay ill reblog that

ahoyimlosingmymind

”there are only the hands that feed her, and those that do not” yeah-

aquilacalvitium

Write it badly or it'll never be written

aquilacalvitium

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

phantomwithbreakfast

DANNYMAY DAY 09: Space

Day 08 ⟡ Day 10

Right up Danny’s alley. Space. Dreaming of being an astronaut, flying and hovering and floating in zero gravity, between the unreachable stars and planets. Imagining about walking through constellations and the Milky Way’s ocean. Oh, yes. I had so much fun drawing and rendering this one!

dragonmuse

sometimes I get a little self-conscious about the fact that my stories are low conflict overall. I don't love writing explosive fights or huge blowups.

Then I remember that fanfic is an indulgent practice by nature and if I want to eat nutella out of the jar, inevitably some folks will also get out their spoons.

So like...I dunno y'all. Eat nutella out of the jar if you want. Life is so fucking short and occasionally painful.