As a lazy intellectual, short stories make up some of my favourite works. Anything by Joyce Carol Oates or Flannery O'Connor is worth your time. A few other favourites
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Bees by Dan Chaon
The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
Turn of the Screw by Henry James (more of a novella but whatever)
1408 by Stephen "Absolute Hack" King
And for fun I'd like to redisclose that Ray Bradbury is an on-the-nose technophobe with a boring writing style.
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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
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