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Five Stories I've read this month (older/newer), stories that have stayed with me.
Plot, Characters, Pacing, Imagery - these stories are great examples that weave all of the above and create an impact. Hope you enjoy reading these as much as I have.
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Plot, Characters, Pacing, Imagery - these stories are great examples that weave all of the above and create an impact. Hope you enjoy reading these as much as I have.
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"We are allowed only the stops on our list. Everything is pre-planned: customers, addresses, the number of syringes. Even our sympathies are rehearsed."
@HananahZaheer in @AGNIMagazine https://agnionline.bu.edu/fiction/story-about-a-boy
@HananahZaheer in @AGNIMagazine https://agnionline.bu.edu/fiction/story-about-a-boy
"She wouldn’t bother me, rustle me awake or make a whole lot of noise. But she wouldn’t sleep, either. With an eye half open, I’d watch her on the floor in the corner of the room, pulling from her flask, gazing into nothing."
@jjackso92 in @YaleReview https://yalereview.yale.edu/blanca
@jjackso92 in @YaleReview https://yalereview.yale.edu/blanca
"Third there is Cousin Elaine, the only one with a Christian name because her mother married a white man. There were high hopes for Cousin Elaine because as my grandma said, “Mixed up babies, always pretty!”"
@vanjchan in @ElectricLit https://electricliterature.com/the-ugliest-babies-in-the-world-by-vanessa-chan/
@vanjchan in @ElectricLit https://electricliterature.com/the-ugliest-babies-in-the-world-by-vanessa-chan/
"The men in the front room peer out the glassless windows and listen for moans. When the infant comes, it will be an icon of metal scraps and fish-heads. They will set it in a bare corner atop a stool."
Mitchell Grabois in @SwampApeReview https://www.swampapereview.com/3flashes
Mitchell Grabois in @SwampApeReview https://www.swampapereview.com/3flashes
"Your friends have described the process, and it makes you less nervous. You know she’ll take the black notebook and write your questions down with her neat little handwriting. That handwriting that resembles ants."
María Alejandra Barrios @WaxwingMag
http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue22/30_Barrios-Two-Crosses.php
María Alejandra Barrios @WaxwingMag
http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue22/30_Barrios-Two-Crosses.php
