It’s been a while since I last posted here, and in that time, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ways stories connect us. I’ve always believed that stories do more than entertain — they help us make sense of our lives, our histories, and our place in the world. For those of you who […]
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In order to understand meaning in short fiction, you may also want to look back at “What is a Story, as Opposed to a Vignette?” whereby I attempt to define a short story, and “The Intersection of Pity & Fear: A Look at Endings in Short Fiction” where part of what I attempt to unravel
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It has been several years ago now that I workshopped what I was then referring to as a “story” called “Barry Gibb is the Cutest Bee Gee” at the Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop at Hollins University. I had whipped it out quite fast and at the last minute, as we are sometimes apt to do. But
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