Basically all of Flannery O'Conner's stories. Good Country People is my fave.
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Jan 16, 2008 12:36:07 pm PST #3717 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 12:36:47 pm PST #3718 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Harrison Bergeron
What was that Ayn Rand story that HB always reminded me of?
Scrappy - Jan 16, 2008 12:38:03 pm PST #3719 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I adored O Henry when I was about 11 or so. Plus Sherlock Holmes.
Cashmere - Jan 16, 2008 12:39:38 pm PST #3720 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
DJ is it We the Living?
-t - Jan 16, 2008 12:40:34 pm PST #3721 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Repent, Harlequin, Said the Tick-Tock Man
Ginger - Jan 16, 2008 12:41:17 pm PST #3722 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Sherlock Holmes, particularly The Speckled Band and The Five Orange Pips. The Purloined Letter. Asimov's The Ugly Little Boy.
-t - Jan 16, 2008 12:42:39 pm PST #3723 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
A Christmas Carol.
Cashmere - Jan 16, 2008 12:44:14 pm PST #3724 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Low Men in Yellow Coats.
Kathy A - Jan 16, 2008 12:44:16 pm PST #3725 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Shambleau. The Yellow Wallpaper. Who Am I This Time?
And one by James Tiptree, Jr., that I can't remember the name of offhand, but it was about a woman stuck on a mid-range transport spaceship who ends up going mad and killing her male crewmates and taking the ship to a distant planet that she has been dreaming about all her life and finding her soul mate there. But, due to the fact that the planet's atmosphere was poisonous to her, her mate and she were only able to commune through the window until she finally opened the door and they were able to touch for the first time right before she died. Very touching.
Ginger - Jan 16, 2008 12:45:23 pm PST #3726 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ooh. Tiptree's The Women That Men Don't See.
eta: This is not the one you're thinking of. You just reminded me.)