short stories
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It’s been months since I finished the stories in Ted Chiang’s Arrival. Before that I had binged Rick Remender’s Black Science comic book series. It was a struggle to get through the opening story in Ted’s book. After the kinetic shootouts and chases of Black Science, it was a challenge adjusting to the slower pacing
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In her introduction to The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, Tara Masih defines flash fiction using Stuart Dybek’s description of rain from his short story, “Nighthawks”: “Each drop encases its own separate note, the way each drop engulfs its own blue pearl of light.” She explains: A successful flash enchants us,
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I tried to find a song or video the summed up the tone of Jacob Mendelsohn’s book without the religious assumptions but Godspell’s “Day by Day” captures the daily conflicts of his characters most perfectly. I spent my summer getting to know Wilson Vincent (who was once accused of a terrible crime), Laurie (who used
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Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder My rating: 4 of 5 stars To be honest, “Voodoo Heart” was my least favorite story in Scott Snyder’s collection, Voodoo Heart. Voodoo Heart is a very well organized collection of stories from the writer of one of my recent favorite comic books, American Vampire. The title story marks (though
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You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane My rating: 4 of 5 stars I kept hearing Alison Brie’s character on Community, Annie, as I read the stories in this book. There is this purposeful superficial quality to the tone of voice in the writing — a wide-eyed dreamy “detachedness” –that belies the
Vincent Young 