Edit: thank you for sharing your suggestions, everyone. I’ll try to check out the ones I haven’t read. Hopefully the responses in this thread were helpful for you too. <3

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      Another great short story that I never see mentioned is “Teddy” By J.D. Salinger.

      There is also a Dave Eggars short story that always stuck with me from his one collection called, “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned.”

      Also, almost forgot, “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce is also fantastic.

      Top three short stories imo.

      Edit: Yikes… without spoiling anything, I just realized that there is a (kind of dark) theme connecting all of those. Should I be worried?

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 day ago

        The description of Harrison dancing with the ballerina in the studio is forever burned in my brain. Textbook case of words being “evocative.” I can see every second of that scene play out in my mind. It’s passion, it’s beauty and form, it’s the human spirit.