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”
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A short story I recently read
There are Ghosts Here, by Dominique Dickey Read it here in about 15 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love the mysteriousness of this story – so much is not told to the reader, for example we are informed by the narrator that Leo ‘disappeared’, then ‘Across the city, Leo was dying’, thenContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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