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Re:Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours? by rzzzwilson on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:16AM (#19063735)
Re:Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours? by yesenadam on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:26PM (#19080274)
Terry Bisson's THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

(Well, as xkcd says, someone will read this classic today for the first time)

Re:Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours? by new_guy on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:04PM (#19064102)
The Egg: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Also Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" from the answer below, not read that in years, or any of Clarke's/Asimov's.

Re:Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours? by tjalfi on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:56PM (#19067016)
Everyone should read Saki’s The Open Window[0].

[0] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/beasts/chapter6.html

Re:Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours? by masonic on Sunday February 03, 2019 @06:17AM (#19068984)
Frederick Forsythe's "The Shepherd".

Look for the podcast with Alan Maitland's reading on CBC.ca or YouTube. It's become tradition for CBC to broadcast it every year on the last weekday before Christmas.

Re:Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours? by DrScump on Sunday February 03, 2019 @06:27AM (#19069019)
"The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado" by Robert Arthur. I first read it in maybe 7th grade, and I still remember.
Re:Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours? by oblomovshchina on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:25PM (#19066548)
Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Pynchon's Entropy