Borges’ 1971 anthology ‘Extraordinary Tales’ showcased brief passages, "some of them imaginary happenings, some of them historical. The anecdote, the parable, and the narrative welcomed". This community shares other examples of these tales of the more-than-normal, the 'supenormal'. Each story needs an element of the unorthodox, offbeat or something that sets it apart. Review our sub rules.
From the novel White Noise, by Don DeLillo
The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers. They walk in a fragmented trance, stop and go, clusters of well-dressed figures frozen in the aisles, trying to figure out the pattern, discern the underlying logic, trying to remember where they'd seen the cream of wheat.
From the novel Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
A public of a simpler sort traded in more essential things: the prickly, quickly stale crusts of rationed black bread; the dirty, wet ends of sugarloaves; and two-ounce packets of shag tobacco cut in half through the wrapper. And all over the market some sort of mysterious junk circulated, increasing in price as it passed through everyone’s hands.
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