Where Memory Meets the Sea, by Laia Asieo Odo Read it here in 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… This story intrigued me from the beginning, as it opens with a description of a group of characters who routinely go to the sea shore and stand in the waves in order to rememberContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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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
The Quiet Boy, by Nick Antosca Read it here, in about 30 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love the use of metafiction: it’s a story with stories in it, and one of those stories sets off the action. The story in question, the grammatically inaccurate The Three Wolfs, written by student Lucas,Continue reading “A short story I recently read”
A protest poetry collection
Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky A coherent selection of the poems from this collection has been published in The New Yorker. I’m going to talk about the first 3 poems, which you can read in less than 10 minutes. In relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the 2022 Winter Olympics, and everything else happening inContinue reading “A protest poetry collection”
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