There's a great short story by Philip K Dick called "Happy Birthday dear Jesus", which I reccommend.
Another couple of short stories I love are "Excepting Mrs Pentherbridge" by Saki and "Mr Andrews" by EM Forster. Only the first one is apposite to this thread.
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