I Like Short Stories

The New New Yorker prints fiction that digs inside a character's psyche. The Limner, by Jilian Barnes, which I shared and linked to here is an outstanding story.

Al Roosten by George Saunders is set in a different world, yet it also gets into a person's head in a remarkable way and strikes me as not so different from the Limner, in the end. This one got to me.