The Little Angel’s Exhumation, by Mariana Enriquez (translated by Joel Streicker) Read it here in about 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… Enriquez includes enough details to make the setting and characters of grandma, the narrator, and the narrator’s father feel real, but pulls back from writing realism by using a non-emotive first-personContinue reading “A short story for Halloween”
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A short story I recently read
Tiptoe, by Laird Barron Read it here in 15 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… This story mixes the everyday with the creepy. From the first paragraph, we have a mixture of comics (normal), playing catch (normal), and shadow puppets (moving towards creepy). The shadow puppets are made up of standard animals (normal) andContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
A short story I recently read
Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson Read it here in about 10 minutes. Thinking about why I love it… I love stories that are divided into sections, and in this particular story we have a division into two sections, although there’s no clear reason why that is (i.e. there are no section titles; theContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
