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The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories
You are, unfortunately, a fiction writer. You are attempting a cycle of very short belletristic pieces, pieces which as it happens are not contes philosophiques and not vignettes or scenarios or allegories or fables, exactly, though neither are they really qualifiable as ‘short stories’ (not even as those upscale microbrewed Flash Fictions that hav
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“The Gift of the Magi”—each of us making a sacrifice that nullified the gift of the other. I
Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.