What are some god-tier short stories with few characters

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

The overcoat

>>9654939
This.

Also the Mezzanine

>>9655312
Sry thought you said stories in general.

Also most Saul Bellow shorts

my diary desu

>>9654856
Yellow Wallpaper is straight up classic

>>9654856
Anything by Chekhov or Carver

Clark Ashton Smith, The Double Shadow
C.L Moore, Shambleau

Flannery O'Connor, Kyle Minor, David Means.

>>9655441
My bad. Should've been more specific.

Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find, or Everything That Rises Must Converge. Basic answers, but those are the best places to start with her (she's not difficult, but she is probably my favorite writer).

Kyle Minor: The Truth and All its Ugly

David Means: Railroad Incident, August 1995. (A little more complex than the others (not by much), but he is a master, and very underrated.)

Oh, and George Saunders: Victory Lap. (Probably his most universally praised story, and well worth reading.)

Micheal Knight: Grand Old Party (Very new story from his collection Eveningland). Highly recommend it.

Tried to give you a few from authors you might not know.

Nabokov: Signs and Symbols

Any of Salingers "Nine Stories"


If you read any of these and this thread is still active, I'd like to know what you think. Enjoy.

>>9654856
Anything by Ligotti
The Bungalow House is my favorite, but The Red Tower is the one that fits your definition the best.

>>9654856
Ligotti's "The Red Tower" has no characters and one location and is god-tier.