10 pages or less. Thanks!
2007-12-06 09:20:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Either Saki's The Open Window or Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2007-12-06 09:52:09 · answer #1 · answered by kittyrat234b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. The guy wakes up to find he's turned into a giant insect. After his family get over their initial concern they treat him like crap because he won't get up and go to work. They persecute him, seemingly oblivious that insects are not able to fit in to our world. The story's a classic and a revelation to anyone who's ever woken up as a cockroach.
2007-12-06 09:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
...She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion trivial...
It's an amazing short story, I recommend it.
2007-12-06 09:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by Mrs. Rhett Butler 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight
talks about racism in the 1960's and discovering who you are.
2007-12-06 09:30:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sphinx, by Edgar Allen Poe
2007-12-06 09:25:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki
2007-12-06 09:24:17 · answer #6 · answered by Maz T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Battleground by Stephen King.
If you can count a novella (which is really just a lonnng short story) The Long Walk, also by Stephen King (tho it may be under his other name, Bachman).
2007-12-06 09:29:42 · answer #7 · answered by irvingfan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it has to be that short, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe.
2007-12-06 10:39:25 · answer #8 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Lorrie Moore or John Cheever.
2007-12-06 09:28:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cask of amontillado by edgar allen poe
2007-12-06 09:28:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋