How do I write one?
A few of my all-time favorite short stories, in no particular order, and probably missing some of my favorites:
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe (okay, anything by Poe, largely considered the inventor of the modern short story)
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
Nine Stories (a collection), J.D. Salinger
Little Birds, Anais Nin (content warning)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Bad Behavior (collection), Mary Gaitskill
A few contemporary short story authors I recommend looking into (not specific stories):
George Saunders
Alice Munro
Annie Proulx
Dave Eggers
A few of my all-time favorite short stories, in no particular order, and probably missing some of my favorites:
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe (okay, anything by Poe, largely considered the inventor of the modern short story)
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
Nine Stories (a collection), J.D. Salinger
Little Birds, Anais Nin (content warning)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Bad Behavior (collection), Mary Gaitskill
A few contemporary short story authors I recommend looking into (not specific stories):
George Saunders
Alice Munro
Annie Proulx
Dave Eggers