Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

John Barth’s long story “Lost in the Funhouse,”

“No, no! It’s not important, it shouldn’t be important. But your machine says it’s important! So I believe! It’ll be all right, Leo, after I cry some more.” “What else?” “What else? The machine says, ‘You’re young.’ I’m not. It lies, that Sadness Machine!” “Sad in what way?” His wife was quieter now. “Leo, the mistake you made is you forgot some ho

You are, unfortunately, a fiction writer. You are attempting a cycle of very short belletristic pieces, pieces which as it happens are not contes philosophiques and not vignettes or scenarios or allegories or fables, exactly, though neither are they really qualifiable as ‘short stories’ (not even as those upscale microbrewed Flash Fictions that hav