Here's a thread to share or discuss the best short stories you know of. Looking forward to reading something that has had a big impact on you or that you love for any reason.
Edit to say: thank you everyone for your recommendations, I'll be reading them!
"They're made out of meat" has stuck with me for being this absurdist kind of perspective on how Actual Alien contact may go/may have gone. Lovely little short movie made out of a short story.