Contemplation by Franz Kafka

Contemplation is a collection of short stories.  I almost wouldn't even call them short stories.  If they were short stories, they would at least last a few pages.  The majority are under a page and a few are even a single paragraph.  "The Trees" in particular is only four short sentences that are loaded with repetition.  Naturally, even the tiny ones are soaked in symbolism.

The stories are consistently written in the same tone as the one in the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life".  The mundane and the surreal are mixed, often at the last sentence.  Sometimes, the story makes no sense without the symbolism, as in "The Wish to be and Indian", where a Native American is portrayed riding a horse that slowly disappears.  Others are fun and the symbolism is easy to miss, like in "Children on a Country Road", which might not actually represent anything.