short stories i like

i adore short stories, especially short science fiction. as a teenager i obsessively read these sci-fi and horror short story anthologies. short stories are excellent low-commitment formats for toying with an idea that would be hard to flesh out into a novel and you get to read a lot more than you normally would.

below are a bunch of short stories i like. i independently host most of the stories as pdfs to avoid linkrot; all credit goes to original authors.