wuqs:
an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks
- the scarlet ibis
- marigolds
- the diamond necklace
- the monkey’s paw
- the open boat
- the lady and the tiger
- the minister’s black veil
- an occurrence at owl creek bridge
- a rose for emily
- (I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)
- the cask of amontillado
- the yellow wallpaper
- the most dangerous game
- a good man is hard to find
some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15
add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma’am
the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”
wHat did I just put my eyes on
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone
Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
the lottery by shirley jackson
i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned
and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf
Ett halvt ark papper.
I cried so much.Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme
We read lots of good disturbing shit in hs or in the writing groups I joined in hs but somehow the top of the heap for shit that haunted me’s still indisputably Ethan Canin’s “The Palace Thief”. It’s not horror as such but it freaked me the fuck out.
There was another O. Henry short story we read that was also really alarming but I had to google a major spoiler (which is also a warning) to recall the name – “The Furnished Room”.
there will come soft rains by bradbury was very unsettling for middle school me
I had no idea so many were all written by Ray Bradbury, why did he do this to us
“Emergency” by Dennis Johnson – not entirely disturbing but really weird and there’s one Bad Part
“A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver – again not all that bad but sad and kind of creepy
i had to read a collapse of horses by brian evenson for a writing class last year and it’s. very fucking weird
“the birds” by du maurier
Bradbury wrote a lot of weird shit. But, “The Book of Sand” and"The Library of Babel" by Luis Borges.
“It’s a Good Life” – Jerome Bixby
“The Little Black Bag” – Cyril M. Cornbluth
“The Cold Equations” – Tom Godwin
“The Nine Billion Names of God” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Mars is Heaven!” – Ray Bradbury
“Born of Man and Woman” – Richard Matheson
“That Only A Mother” – Judith Maril
“The Country of the Kind” – Damon Knight
“Mimsy Were The Borogroves” – Lewis Padgett
“Lamb to the Slaughter” – Roald Dahl
“We Can Get Them For You Wholesale” – Neil Gaiman
“BLIT” and “Different Kinds of Darkness” – David Langford (set in the same universe) (there are a couple of other “basilisk” stories and they’re worth checking out)
“The Secret Number” – Igor Teper“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
Tag: reference
Stuff Nobody Tells you About Getting An Apartment.
This’ll cover the basics, such as financial expectation, rental history, what to bring for the application process, etc.
So today was the first time I saw the bathroom I’m about to buy in actual overhead light rather than the feeble light of a cellphone, because the power is now on. I thought that, like many other units in the building, the bathroom was tiled in what you might charitably call “peach” but it turns out no. It WAS tiled in Peach, and then they retiled it in Poop, but they clearly didn’t want to mess with removing the hardware so they left the tiles around the fixtures peach.
“Retile the bathroom” just rose a couple of notches up the “running list of things I need to do to this place.” (I’m planning on either subway tile or something that will make the faucet look centered, I know some of you out there are like IT’S OFF CENTER AND THAT REALLY BUGS ME, I know, me too.)
(The water pressure is spectacular though, and the tub isn’t as big as the one I have now but it’s still pretty big.)
Unless you’ve done it before, http://www.johnbridge.com/ is The Place on The Internet to learn shit shit.
I’m a tileing novice, but you get it to look centered by putting a whole tile in the center spot, and then cutting the tiles as necessary on the edges.
“Welcome to John Bridge.com, home of the world’s friendliest and most informative tile advice forum”
There are days when I see something on the internet and I think yes. This is the best internet humanity can make.
This is gonna be an awesome resource, thank you!
Also, I learned a lot watching a time-lapse video some dude made of retiling a client’s bathroom. It was especially fun because he looks a bit like Super Mario, but very educational!
oh this is a life saver
things u need to stop putting on your face
- lemons
- citrus in general
- coconut oil
- vaseline
- baby oil on your eyes
- sugar
- baking soda
- toothpaste
- essential oils without diluting it with a carrier oil
- white vinegar
- st ives apricot scrubs
- aluminum powder in highly pigmented eyeshadows (nars and urban decay)
- sunscreens w/ vitamin A in them
a breakdown of y u shouldn’t put these things on your face for saaaaaaaaaas:
• citrus on ya face can cause a phototoxic reaction called phytophotodermatitis
• coconut oil is comedogenic and will clog yr pores
• vaseline is horrible for the environment and doesnt actually moisturize, and can in fact trap toxins under the skin + slow cellular regeneration
• baby oil is similar to vaseline in its defects
• sugar particles are too large and if u use them to exfoliate yr face they create tiny lacerations
• using baking soda to exfoliate will fuck up the ph balance of your skin seriously who the fuck thought this was a good idea
• toothpaste doesnt cause any harm as far as i know but it doesnt actually help w acne either. use a spot treatment or diluted tea tree oil
• notice how i said diluted tea tree oil? thats bc if u use essential oils undiluted u could potentially irritate your skin even further. if u have sensitive skin, stick w a spot treatment
• white vinegar, again u will fuck up the ph balance of your face
• st ives apricot scrubs are terrible for your skin they have shit ingredients and the particles are too big D O N O T
• aluminum powder is linked to increased risk of cancer and many other health concerns and since the particles are so fine its easily absorbed into the bloodstream
• vitamin a actually increases photosensitivity and additionally breaks down in sunlight and forms free radicals and it could POSSIBLY have a link to an increased risk of cancer
in general you should just avoid diy skincare at all costs but like skincare products can also be harmful/ineffective. here’s a list of ingredients to look out for. for those on a budget here is a whole tag of drugstore skincare products. (and if u have a little more to spend lush has some great skin products)
just remember that u only have one face and its worth more than diy “skincare” that could potentially fuck u up for life
this has been a skincare psa thank u
I feel personally attacked rn lol I’ve used ¼ of this list
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