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This may be kind of a trite answer...but I have always loved "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe. It is a masterpiece of suspense. I'm also a fan of Faulkner's "short" stories, but I have to be in the right mood.
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"Surviver Type" from stephen king. Great short story in the form of a diary.
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I really enjoy "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.
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The all-time best short story I ever read, was Gerry Spence's "Easy in the Harness: The Tyranny of Freedom". It was fantastic and empowering in a really sick way.
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The Body, by Stephen King, so real you thought you could be there..It became the movie "Stand by Me"
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'The Grandmothers' by Doris Lessing.
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My absolute favorite is "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov, but a close second is "To Build A Fire" by Jack London.
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Strange Highways by Dean Koontz
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"Once upon a time they lived happily ever after."
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'The Star' by H.G. Wells
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The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
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The Scarlatti Tilt, by Richard Brautigan. It is only two sentences long, and goes like this - "It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver." (from Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970)
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Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes (the original, 'short' 1958 version)
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Rain - Somerset Maugham
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Tikki Tikki Tembo http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/tikki.html
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"A Good Man is Hard to Find," by Flannery O'Connor. Or pretty much anything by O'Connor who wrote many near-perfect stories. If you are interested in writing short stories yourself, srudying her constructions and character developemnt is the best training.
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Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
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Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
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One of my favorite short stories is the first short story I ever studied in 6th grade. It was "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O.Henry. This began my love of reading.
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Greenleaf, Judgment Day...all things flannery o'connor.
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How can you pick one? I like Dostoevsky's 'notes from the underground,' anything by kafka (Metamorphosis was mentioned, but the penal colony is great as well), Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's 'a very old man with enormous wings' and Sartre's 'the wall.' Great question! My to-read list just got that much longer.
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
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Aesop's Fable; The North Wind and the Sun http://rrr.kimcm.dk/Joomla/index.php/relationship-articles/41-marriage-and-relationship-articles/96-the-north-wind-and-the-sun.html
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So many of my suggestions were already listed but "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin is great, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates are always on my list.
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
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Basically any of Anton Chekhov's...
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