Short stories

I haven't read many short stories in my life. To be honest, I only discovered that short stories are a 'thing' in their own right when I had to read some for a literature course (I can remember 'The Story of an Hour' and 'The Lady with the Dog', and something by Kate Mansfield about a garden party). When I was younger, I read a collection of short stories by Anton Quintana, who is a Dutch author and not very famous at that, so I might be quite unique in that area. Other than that, very few short stories were ever read by me.
Until I bought The Complete Short Stories by Roald Dahl. Did you know that he was an air force pilot stationed in Greece during the Second World War? And that he hadn't written anything until someone asked him to give him some notes on stuff that happened during the War? And that Dahl's 'notes' were actually the first story he ever wrote? Neither did I. And that was just from the Introduction.
I've been zooming through the stories at quite a high speed, and I've recognised some, either from the aforementioned literature course, or from other places (I may have read one or two in a Dutch translation when I was younger). I can't really say too much about them, other than that they're gripping, and moving, and slightly disturbing, and all very very different. From milk-drinking snakes to being killed by a frozen leg of lamb, all amazing in their own way.
If you find yourself without a book to read, do try Dahl's stories. It's like reading 10 great novels in one day.