10 Captivating Short Stories Everyone Should Read
1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell — The story of a big game hunter finding himself stranded on an island and becoming the hunted.
2. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — A question is posed to a supercomputer that does not get answered until the end days of man.
3. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — A man passes away and has a conversation with the Voice in the afterlife.
4. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman — A collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of the house.
5. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson — The story of one small town’s ritual know only as “the lottery.”
6. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway — A couple has a tension-filled conversation at a train station in Spain.
7. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury — A group of schoolchildren live on Venus where the Sun is visible for only two hours every seven years.
8. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut — It is the year 2081, and all Americans are equal in every possible way.
9. The Monkey by Stephen King — The story of a cymbal-banging monkey toy that controls the lives around it.
10. We Can Get Them For You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman — A man named Peter searches the phone book for an assassin to kill his unfaithful fiancée.
I was once talking about color psychology with a professor of mine and I asked her “Why does yellow say it can also mean depression?” and she referred ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ to me and it changed me.
(Source: johnnylists, via queengaia)
its 90 degrees out? but the sun still look like a circle not a square :/
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"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
Ernest Hemingway (via feellng)(via gosh)
