I'm looking for collections of short stories with easy-to-understand modern English.
I see a lot of suggestions that are good, but many tend to use fancy, upper class vocabulary, or if it's simple language, it's a style you wouldn't use in every day "street English." For example, no one in 2025 speaks English like someone from a Mark Twain short story.
Do you have any suggestions for short stories that have good examples of everyday conversational English from the late 1990s to the modern age?
(This is for a friend who speaks English, but he is trying to perfect his speech and sound more like a native and he's looking for short stories that don't take too much time to read.)
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