best short stories?

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there was a great story by Julio Cortazar in Harper's in the early 1980's I believe about a guy who put on a bright yellow tie, and put an ant on his tie, and paraded himself down the sidewalk infront of his neighbour's house to make him jealous.
that was great.
can't remember the name, sadly.

Mark Leyner's Car Bomb from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is decent.

Of course, there's Alice Munro, Ray Carver, Updike.

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"Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry.

"The Swarm" by Bruce Sterling.

that is all.

The Vegan Muffin by Tao Lin

Most of Poe's stuff.

>>9275923
Almost everything by Maupassant, Poe and Borges.
Consider Kafka and Carver.

>>9276180
>The Gift of the Magi

Not even close to his best. Off the top of my head, While the Auto Waits and Last Leaf are FAR better.

>>9276232
"Consider" Kafka and Carver? Consider??? Are you fucking kidding me? Which of their stories have you read? Because if you actually knew their works you would not say to "consider" them.

>>9276232
>Poe

anyway, it's La Giara by pirandello, the legend of the holy drinker by roth. also carver

>>9276243

Bitch, do you mean to dis the EAP?

add Lovecraft to other suggestions.

The ballad of the flexible bullet
Fornit some fornus, bitches

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Carver, Kafka, Borges, Vonnegut, Joyce

Also anything on pic related

Also also rolling

Munro

>>9275923

Gogol's Petersburg Tales, no contest.

Akutagawa did a neat little book of short stories called The Beautiful and The Grotesque, if you like that uniquely japanese style of writing.

>>9275955
>can't remember the name, sadly.
No, no y no.
I like the surrealist bouts of Cortázar too, have you read Carta a una Señorita en Paris? Same style, and that's Cortázar at his best

>>9276278
roll it

>>9275923
Can you please give me the sadpanda code for that pic's complete works?

Tolstoy's short stories.