Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
Dude, the lottery is not the best story every. Strange Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge owns it. Not to mention life after high school.

Read something by Borges, he writes a lot of shorts...
Yeah, Jorge Luis Borges is pretty much the master of the short story, as far as Spanish-speaking writers go... Also, speaking of Spanish stories, Cortázar's "Continuidad de los parques" is one of my favorite.
IntoTheEther Reviewed by IntoTheEther on . Best story ever. The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 2th. but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so Rating: 5