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added by Alex Dobrenko and · updated 3mo ago
added by Alex Dobrenko and · updated 3mo ago
One of the tacit promises of a short story, because it is so short, is that there’s no waste in it. Everything in it is there for a reason (for the story to make use of)—even a brief description of a road.
Jonathan Simcoe added
“It’s fast and funny and wild…but we aren’t sure it’s a story.” That was, you know…maddening. (I felt: If it’s fast and funny and wild, isn’t that enough, you dopes?) But I understand now. A short story is not just a series of events, one following after another. It’s not a lively narrative that briskly continues for a number of pages, then stops.
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story I am about to tell concerns
Agalia Tan added
“Do we tell stories, or do stories tell us?”
Molly Simpson added
a closing note that is anything but subordinate via The Sublime