Roberto Bolaño. 2666 and The Savage Detectives are great. He also wrote a ton of short stories. His writing is also pretty straightforward so it's easy to follow if you're still learning.

Luis Sepúlveda. The Old Man who Read Love Stories and The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her To Fly are both very good. The latter is more of a children's book but still worth it.

This page contains a collection of many authors and short stories. I've found it helpful: Literatura.us

This is another great resource for popular books by country: https://preply.com/en/d/most-translated-books--lp

Also, don't they need to run to move food through their digestive tract? Or to force themselves to cough if they have something stuck in their lungs? I think there is some sort of dependency of basic functions that relies on the movement of their lungs/stomach going back and forth while running that they can't easily do if they just stand in one place all day

My mom, a republican, almost voted for Kerry "because he had better hair." She liked Bush, wanted Bush to win, but she viewed him as the less attractive candidate so she struggled to vote for him.

"Is there any reason why this needs to be a taxpayer subsidized organization?"

Public safety? Is that a good enough reason? We should be subsiding more things that are in the public interest - programs that benefit the public should never be run by for-profit corporations.

The original Star Wars would never have specifically created a character just to sell merchandise...

No one who speaks german could be an evil man.

Engles

They're usually more walkable, so that's a plus.

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Ugh, Cincinnati just voted to sell the last municipality owned rail line to Norfolk Southern. I agree with you completely.

Wow, my rep is actually on the right side of something for once. I absolutely don't want to know his reasoning for voting no because I'm sure it's unhinged.