"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.’’

The Book of Sand. Not fucked up, just mind-blowing.

The Bet, by Anton Chekov. That story has given me my existentialism

Nobody else for Equus?

There Will Come Soft Rains

Someone already said it, but The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Harrison Bergeron, in like 7th grade

i figured the tweet was about The Lotterry and everyone would go "Oh it's obviously a tweet about The Lottery" but nope.

The one that sticks out for me is On The Sidewalk Bleeding. Wasn't even the most effed up thing we read in 9th grade, just had the most memorable name.

The Chaser by John Collier… that ending … still gives me chills

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. Someone did a great adaptation to film as well.

During online school we had to read about the "Edmund Fitzgerald" and there was a cringy song too. We were constantly being accused of skipping classes because zoom was under too much load and never loading, or would make 2 separate calls for some reason. Whole society under collapse and we had to uproot all of education just so we could learn that a fucking boat sank. THATS ALL THE UNIT WAS. Just a stupid boat sinking.

Been looking for this book for a long time, maybe someone here can help? It was in french, no idea if it was ever translated. The whole story is a guy in room alone with his dad, the dad is in a coma and expected to die (I believe the familly decided to unplug him). The guy is bitching to his dad, telling him how much he hates him for being an abusive asshole or something. It was really crude and emotonial. At the end, instead of dying when he's unplugged, the dad wakes up. Maybe it was not a novel, but a part of a book, and maybe the title had the work Duck in it.