‘Heat’, by Joyce Carol Oates Read it here in about 20 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… The story builds up in layers, right from the very first paragraph, adding detail as it moves forward. So, you’re given information about the time of year, the place, the twins, the fact they’re dead… Then, moreContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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A short story I recently read
Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury Read it here in about 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… The opening paragraph is a mixture of metaphors (‘can opener’ / ‘silverfish’ / ‘sea’ / ‘meteor swarm’), which shouldn’t work, and writers are told not to mix metaphors because of this, but it does work, because it perfectlyContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story I recently read
Menace, by Monika Radojevic Read it here in about 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love the way the narrator talks, and how they operate within the story. Right from the opening paragraph, the omniscient narrator tells us that something significant and strange has happened, but that no one has realised –Continue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story I recently read
Natalya by Puloma Ghosh Read it here in about 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love that this short story takes the form of a medical examiner report, with subheadings throughout. I don’t know what a real medical examiner report would look like, but the subheadings here make sense in the orderContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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