
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was originally published in the digest magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction in January 1962. 2BR02B is a 1962 dystopian short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. about a future where nobody gets old anymore. At the same time, there is a max population cap of 40 million. For the WHOLE WORLD! […]

A Very Short Story is one of Ernest Hemingway’s earliest literary works. Not just one of his earliest flash pieces, but one of his first pieces altogether. Remember, Hemingway first started writing for the Toronto Star, followed by the Kansas City Star. This was all way before moving to Paris. The short appeared first as […]

Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, first published in South of No North (1973). Once again Charles Bukowski explores the depths of his alcoholism. The story itself is based on a near-fatal 1954 internal hemorrhage that almost killed Bukowski, painting a picture of drinking not as a pleasure, but as dark […]