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The Egg by Andy Weir ( galactanet.com )

This is one most of you have probably read or watched the YouTube video for. But if you haven't, please enjoy! The YouTube video is excellent but the story is great either way.

They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson ( www.mit.edu )

This is one of my favorite short stories. I'm sure most of you have read it. It's pretty popular. Glad I found this instance. I'll be posting a few things that I haven't seen here. Let me know if I overdo it lol.

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury ( www.btboces.org )

Ray Bradbury is bloody brilliant writrer of Fahrenheit 451)

The Egg, by Andy Weir ( galactanet.com )

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin ( files.libcom.org )

Ursula K. Le Guin is a fantastic writer of speculative fiction and the author of the earthsea fantasy series.

A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf ( americanliterature.com )

Exhalation by Ted Chiang ( ia801500.us.archive.org )

Love Ted Chiang

Sour Milk Girls by Erin Roberts ( clarkesworldmagazine.com )

Not All Rot Is Ruin – E.A. Petricone ( magazine.metaphorosis.com )

E.A. Petricone, "We, The Girls Who Did Not Make It" (tw horror, violence) ( www.nightmare-magazine.com )

“The Gorge” by Umberto Eco ( www.newyorker.com )

LOOOOVE Umberto Eco

HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut ( www.tnellen.com )

“Borges and I” by Jorge Luis Borges ( www.amherstlecture.org )

The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things...

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson ( www.newyorker.com )

Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang ( fyp.uoregon.edu )

Maybe my favourite short story ever. Def top 5. The story on which the incredible Dennis Vellenuve movie Arrival is based. Which is also my favorite movie. Basically I couldnt recommend this story enough!

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway ( americanliterature.com )

Published in 1936 in Esquire, Hemingway's protagonist reflects his own questioning of morals and philosophy as a writer leaning too heavily on wealth and privilege. Considered one of the finest reflections by "the Lost Generation" who experienced both world wars and the Spanish War. Hemingway's short story inspired the movie...

Work, Death and Sickness by Leo Tolstoy ( americanliterature.com )

A parable by one of the greatest writers ever

17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future ( www.sbnation.com )

This is one of my favorites, it's an interactive reading experience sort of, but it works on mobile as well as desktop and it is really not what the title makes it sound like. It's quite an amazing read. Maybe a little too long for this place but thought I'd share! Let me know if you like it! There's a sequel as well!

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