Eight O'clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson which was the basis for the movie They Live.
Read it here: http://www.whale.to/b/eight_o.html
The Egg by Andy Weir http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#12The Euphio Question by Vonnegut is quite fun.
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#13"They're Made Out Of Meat" by Terry Bisson: http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
"Scroogled" by Cory Doctorow: http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html
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#14"The Outsider" by H.P. Lovecraft: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/o.aspx
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#15The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway >http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4625.The_Complete_Short_S...
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#16Zen Shorts is one of my favorites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Shorts
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#17The A&P by John Updike
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#18Robert Arthur - "The Marvelous Stamps of El Dorado" Frederick Forsyth - "The Shepherd"[0] [0] A great live reading from Al Maitland (aired nationwide across Canada on CBC every Christmas): http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/fireside-al-maitland-rea...
Correction: Frederick Forsythe
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#19It's Monday but if I have think of a non sci-fi short story for a lovely Sunday, it will have to be anything from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P.G.Wodehouse for me.
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#20Borges
All of them.
But one of my favorites: A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)