Sublime

Stories are how we keep our collective history alive.

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I still think up short stories from time to time, as though there were money in it. The habit dies hard. There used to be fleeting fame in it, too. Highly literate people once talked enthusiastically to one another about a story by Ray Bradbury or J. D. Salinger or John Cheever or John Collier or John O‘Hara or Shirley Jackson or Flannery O’Connor

The natural world is the rock on which these stories are built, and its overbearing presence informs every sentence.

propriety.

‘Strange Fruit.’ I guess I’m just an old grouch.” My father

Find pleasure in these ordinary palm worlds.