Guts

Perhaps the most infamous story by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club–which was adapted into the cult classic by David Fincher, starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt–Guts is an hilarious and grotesque look at those things we hide under the bed, and about the things that we lose in the pool. Debuting in 2003, when Chuck began reading it aloud to audiences, and later published in Playboy, Guts is one of Chuck’s most popular short stories that has caused nearly 70 fainting events to date, due to one of the opening lines of the story as well as outright disgust. The story was later collected in Palahniuk’s novel of short stories Haunted–as the headlining act–which includes stories of the same, and worse, nature. And all in all, you can’t go wrong with a story about breaking the eggs, cracking the nuts, and jamming the carrot.