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.