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I have a special place in my heart for WTF stories. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't have a WTF category-nor does anyone else.
What is a WTF story, you ask? Well, it's like a story with a plot twist, but the twist goes off into a place you just couldn't see coming. The classic WTF story is Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph." The film "Donnie Darko" might be a more familiar example. Sure, the film doesn't quite affect the 40 year old the way it does the 18 year old, but still, it's an excellent example of a WTF story.
What a WTF story is not. "Zany" stories filled with crazy people doing incomprehensible things aren't usually WFT stories. Nor are most po-mo stories. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five is borderline, but I'll give it WTF classification.
If you've read a WTF story, post it here.
What is a WTF story, you ask? Well, it's like a story with a plot twist, but the twist goes off into a place you just couldn't see coming. The classic WTF story is Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph." The film "Donnie Darko" might be a more familiar example. Sure, the film doesn't quite affect the 40 year old the way it does the 18 year old, but still, it's an excellent example of a WTF story.
What a WTF story is not. "Zany" stories filled with crazy people doing incomprehensible things aren't usually WFT stories. Nor are most po-mo stories. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five is borderline, but I'll give it WTF classification.
If you've read a WTF story, post it here.