Every New Yorker short fiction: our protagonist, a slightly dislikable person, suffers from a medium-high amount of ennui.

Stephen King: A character wonders if, given all the suffering recently endured over the last few hundred pages, life is nonetheless still worth living. This character is killed by an entity which, despite all appearance and reputation, is permanently and inexplicably murderous.

All possible trees by major forests

Funny, thanks. This is another very fun one in the same spirit:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-d...

Stephen King: you'll know better than to FAFO after I tell you what happened in Maine a few decades ago.

I want an author who's work is completely unidentifiable from one release to the next. Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. Surely if there were a library with all possible books, we would find one of those two things...

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"thomas hardy

Lies, lies, misery, lies, suicide, rape, and corn prices."

So true