Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The story factory strikes: "Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary!" by Thomas Paine

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The cover to Anis Shivani's Against the Workshop tells you a lot about the book: Shivani writes persuasively that American literat...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

More of the discouraging kind of encouragement

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I've been submitting to Glimmer Train longer than any other journal. I even submitted to them a few times before I got serious about giv...
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Saturday, February 23, 2019

Chocolate dipped in hummus that's somehow not that bad: "Skull" by David Long

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There are some stories that just have to be either a comedy or a tragedy. They don't work in both modes. As much as some people loved Ro...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Four ways of looking at manslaughter: "No Time Like the Present" by Gabriel Brownstein

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Gabriel Brownstein's short story "No Time Like the Present" is one of those narratives that give enough ammunition to various ...
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Monday, February 18, 2019

Why I think abortion should be legal: an open letter to my evangelical friends

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Hello. Thanks for reading this. A lot of people in America think evangelicals are so closed-minded, it's useless to try to reason with t...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Characters resisting the reader: "The Imagination Resettlement Program" by Eli Barrett

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I try on this blog to break down stories in contemporary literature and make them accessible to others by revealing meaning. There is, howev...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

The best short story I've ever read

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While I've been blogging through the short stories from Pushcart, I've also been taking time to do a side project I've wanted to...
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