Check out Donald Barthelme’s “Forty Stories” for a creative look at what short stories can be. From the wiki page:

Many last for fewer than five pages, and display Barthelme’s flash fictional tendencies. They also abound in historical references and surreal juxtapositions. One story involves a World War I Secret Police investigator, a trio of German warplanes, and the artist Paul Klee. Another is a parodic rewriting of the fairy-tale Bluebeard, perhaps inspired by Angela Carter’s story “The Bloody Chamber.” Yet another consists of a single seven-page-long sentence (without a concluding period).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Stories

“In the afterword of 11/22/63, Stephen King states that Time and Again is “in this writer’s humble opinion, the great time-travel story.” He had originally intended to dedicate his book to Jack Finney.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_(Finney_novel)

I’ve read Time and Again and it’s a good book. Mostly it’s such a good portrait of late-19th century NYC. Did you know the statue of liberty’s torch-holding hand stood alone in Central Park to raise money for the rest of the statue? Or that Central Park had actual farms in it? Or that before TV and radio people used to buy cheap statuary and play charades with them for fun? You’ll learn all this and more!

The Red and the Black by Stendhal