The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Short stories get a bad rap for not being ‘enough', but Ursula K. Le Guin proves how powerful they can be in this one. Beautifully and hauntingly written, it will follow you long after you've read it and will give you so much to think on in respect to the story that you'd truly think you had read a novel. In a strange way I see a parallel with one of my favourite anime series Kino's Journey, which also explores uncomfortable truths about people, societies and morality. Truly an artful masterpiece.