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Continue readingDate Archives → September 2009
The Art of the Short Story
Stuck on your short story? This post might help you figure out a way forward.
Continue readingThe Contextual Importance of Eye Contact
“You see mother was always asking me about the place so I thought “it” was the important. But it’s not, the place isn’t, important but the context “is.” The sweat and the palm and the air-drowning goldfish can be in Boca Raton or Boise or Prague or even Yourtown, and maybe it is in Yourtown (you don’t know, but now you’re suspecting); it’s the context of it that’s mattering to the air-drowning goldfish whose eyes are deadening, deadening, dead.”
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