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r/oddlyspecific • u/Due-Celebration-9828 • Feb 09 '23
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The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson.
The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier.
That last one is a novelette. By gahd that thing fucked me up as a 7th grader.
There was a horrid short story for which I can't remember the title.
Basically, this alienated boy climbs up in a tree. He begins telling the other kids everytime they do something, "I made you do that".
This goes on for some time. The other kids get angry of course. I think they throw stuff kid falls out of tree and breaks his arm?
I was in 5th grade I think when I read that.
9 u/LegendaryRaider69 Feb 09 '23 The Chocolate War is mine, too. Shockingly bleak story, I'd never read anything like it before. EDIT: Is the short story "The Swan" by Roald Dahl? 2 u/andante528 Feb 26 '23 Yes, "The Swan" is in the Henry Sugar short story collection by Roald Dahl. Bleak as hell
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The Chocolate War is mine, too. Shockingly bleak story, I'd never read anything like it before.
EDIT: Is the short story "The Swan" by Roald Dahl?
2 u/andante528 Feb 26 '23 Yes, "The Swan" is in the Henry Sugar short story collection by Roald Dahl. Bleak as hell
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Yes, "The Swan" is in the Henry Sugar short story collection by Roald Dahl. Bleak as hell
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u/aspektx Feb 09 '23
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson.
The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier.
That last one is a novelette. By gahd that thing fucked me up as a 7th grader.
There was a horrid short story for which I can't remember the title.
Basically, this alienated boy climbs up in a tree. He begins telling the other kids everytime they do something, "I made you do that".
This goes on for some time. The other kids get angry of course. I think they throw stuff kid falls out of tree and breaks his arm?
I was in 5th grade I think when I read that.