*in Draco Malfoy's voice* my therapist will hear about this
men will see a young woman working at her job and be like how can i make her as uncomfortable as possible
Short Story Recommendations
These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions
Crime
- Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie
- Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl
- Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges
Horror
- The Landlady - Roald Dahl
- A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke
- The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin
- The Veldt - Ray Bradbury
- The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick
- The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft
- The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers
Sad
- The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor
- A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver
- Cathedral - Raymond Carver
- The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers
- The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Chef - Andy Weir
- The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko
- The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert
Sci-Fi
- Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr
- The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
- The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke
- The Star - Arthur C Clarke
- Reunion - Arthur C Clarke
- The Commuter - Philip K Dick
- Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick
- To Serve Man - Damon Knight
- Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman
What the Fuck?!
- The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
- A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson
- Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme
- Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto
- The Box Social - James Reaney
- He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi
- The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges
- Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)
Other
- Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer
- A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates
- The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton
- The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar
- The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner
- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez
- On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges
I know this is horrible but this comment was left on a true crime youtube video and I cannot stop laughing.
adult person: life gets faster as you get older!
me aged 10: sounds fake but ok
me now:
Timothee Chalamet looks like he's 13 years old and has tuberculosis. My brother has a French friend who looks just like him. He only ate sour dinosaur candy every day until his doctor told him he was going to die from malnutrition if he continued. He has had more girlfriends than any guy I have known though, so I guess some women are into that look.
this ask lives in my mind rentfree
I was the doctor
1920's: I had a bird/His name was Enza/I opened the window/And In-flu-enza
2020's:
after social distancing is over everyone is gonna be so touch starved every contact with another human will be like the hand flex scene in pride and prejudice (2005)
social norms after the pandemic are going to be like: "did you hear? miss Katherine brushed hands with the starbucks barista the other day when getting her morning coffee. quite the scandal if you ask me, exposing herself in such a manner… and with gloveless hands!“
this is the merchant cat. reblog in 10 seconds or less to get great deals in your future
studio ghibli movies are like if someone took all of your fondest, softest childhood dreams and put them into a film





