10 Captivating Short Stories Everyone Should Read

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johnnylists:

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 would highly recommend The Yellow Wallpaper and The Lottery!!

(via writerswritecompany)

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Constructs Laura Kicey

Construct is a series of images of places that do not exist. Their composite parts are the culmination of the ongoing photo-explorations of the artist. Using these photographic pieces, collected over three years, the artist blends together the intricate details of doors, bricks, peeling paint and mortar and gives them a new color and place of their own.

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sext: I have this dream where you are biting my bottom lip until it bleeds

sext: I have this dream where you lean down to kiss me and it feels natural

sext: I have this dream where you are on a cloud reaching out to me and I coyly run and hide, then suck on your finger till thunder sounds

sext: I have this dream where we are happy and fulfilled by each other

sext: I have this dream where you want to kiss me in public

sext: I have this dream where you ask me about my day and do not follow it with an invitation to come over when your parents are asleep

sext: I have this dream where we tell the truth until it nauseates us

sext: I have this dream where you throw pebbles at my window every night to lull me to sleep

sext: I have this dream where I do not try to sell you an idea of myself

sext: I have this dream where you finger the commodity of me then whisper, I want the real thing

sext: I have this dream where I nibble your neck and someone else’s name does not spill out

sext: I have this dream where I ask you what you want and light floods from your mouth into me

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- Dream Sexts, Lora Mathis (via hereticnarrative)

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