Short Stories

Yukio Mishimas Patriotism
A story about a young couple who decides to undergo a ritual suicide rather than kill his own friends in a rebellion.

http://www.mutantfrog.com/patriotism-by-yukio-mishima/

Jorge Luis Borges, 'The Library of Babel'
https://libraryofbabel.info/Borges/libraryofbabel.pdf

Death in Venice by Mann

An older writer vacations in Venice only to fall in love with a child

http://www.24grammata.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Mann-death-in-venice-24grammata.com_.pdf

>>7536738
First time I read this, I noticed that there was an obvious typo in it ("when" changed to "wehn").
Blew my mind.

>>7536710
goddamn that prose is nigh unreadably precious. I see his influence in crit threads

>iPad selfie

the jew is truly shameless

>>7536710
What is this shit? You don't seriously think it's good do you? I've seen better shit in crit threads

>>7536710
wait, she is taking a picture of herself holding a tablet with her other phone?

>>7536710
OP reminds me of a Russian girl I went on a few dates with. I was kind of crazy about her, she was perfect and had an amazing body which I never did get to fully see.

She was an englit/Envirosci double major that could speak russian and had the most lovely accent/voice... And oddly enough she lived in Israel for a number of years. I was a bum though, no job, no prospects, and a useless education. I also had pretty bad acne at the time.

Over the last year since our last date I've been reading so much Russian /lit/ and I always think about the discussions I could have had with her. Makes me kind of sad. She wanted 3+ children. I dream of having a family everyday, but my current gf might be infertile (endomitriosis).

>>7536887
if you actually have seen better stories in critique threads please share them, I want to read them

"Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning" - Donald Barthelme

http://jessamyn.com/barth/kennedy.html

>>7536710
Good story.

>>7536892
Sounds like my dream girl anon, I'd Dostoyevsky the fuck out of her. But seriously I've had that experience with a girl just out of your league/social class. Feels very bad bro

>>7536874
At least her hair is covered

>>7536892
you forgot the send the link so I can follow your blog

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>>7536980
>7536892

>>7536874
oy vey get your anti-semitism outta here goyim

>>7536980
That was my short love story anon.

>>7536930
Yeah. She was simply out of my league, at that point of my life anyway. It sucks, but these experiences teach you a lot. They help you balance your expectations with the reality of your own situation, which can motivate you to improve.

>>7537163
It can motivate you to improve or to self destruct If you're extremely unstable. Luckily I feel most of us aren't that unstable. Most of just keep chugging along because there's always more to experience though. (I feel like females take it as a negative though and males tend to ultimately grow from the experience.)

A Girl I Knew by JD Salinger
http://www.ae-lib.org.ua/salinger/Texts/UncollectedStories-en.htm#20
It isn't in Nine Stories

>>7536916
Barthelme is great. I never see him mentioned on /lit/ though. That's probably for the best.

This one is my favorite of his.

http://jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html

>>7537337
Chills. What a great writer.

>>7537263

Salinger pretty based. You can get a short book 'three early stories' (different to the leaked/unpublished 'three stories' you can get online illegally) which I quite like, it's three pieces he published in magazines before he was very famous and his estate sort of forgot about them so some small publisher was able to nab the rights and publish them a couple years back. Still waiting on the supposed volumes of unpublished work that's meant to be released in the next few years.

Kjell Askildsen is probs my fav short story writer though, then Breece D'J Pancake and Katherine Mansfield. Never see much discussion about them on /lit/

>>7536874
I would shame her if you know what I mean. (And by that I mean making her have a goy son with a Jewish soul.)

>>7536710
Muh dik

http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf

>>7536738
loved it. He had such a way of thinking outside of conventional storytelling

>>7536710
are bait pictures like this even allowed on this board?