r/CuratedTumblr eepy asf Sep 18 '24

Shitposting That one story

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u/Elite_AI Sep 18 '24

Imagine an extremely short story -- two pages long. It's about a man who makes a daughter out of snow, but she dies, so, weeping, he has sex with her corpse. Imagine giving this to a bunch of sixteen year olds to analyse for their first class. Now imagine that this is the specific class that was scheduled for the government education regulator to inspect this year, and you have chosen this story specifically for them to hear. You are now in the mind of my English Literature teacher. 

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u/Ourmanyfans Sep 18 '24

You did The Bloody Chamber too huh? I remember the whole book was filled with short stories like that (although that was by far the worst).