I heard it was interesting, so I pulled up a copy online and it took me about 10 minutes to read, and the ending was absolutely sickening, it starts off with a festival, kids collecting stones, that’s normal. There’s a lottery, alright, I knew the lottery was going to be something weird, like a death, but the entire town stoning the “winner” everyone was ecstatic about this lottery, and the kids thought it was amazing. That was one of the most disturbing twists I’ve ever read, each line in that last paragraph was a punch in the face. Anyone else know of a short story that has a punch-in-the-face twist or ending (don’t tell me the ending)
by Braindead_Gunslinger
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Then… go read the whole book, “The Lottery and Other Stories” (I believe that’s the correct title!). The characters are all interwoven among the stories.
I recommend The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty is one of the all time classic short stories with a brutal twist.
I read it for the first time in I think 6th grade and then proceeded to look up that story in every anthology ever set in front of me in a classroom until college.
Did the same with The Yellow Wallpaper by Charolette Perkins Gilman, Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield, and A Worn Path by Eudora Welty