Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Let it not ever be said that kids have it easy. Youth is a wonderful thing, but a thing so wonderful that everybody wants a piece of it.
I think we can all agree that the internet is a miracle. The ability to connect at a moment’s notice to people and information has become so integral to our lives that access is considered a basic human right in several countries.
I love heroes and I love the idea of saving people, even if it can be problematic. Rather, lend a person the strength to save themselves; teach a man to fish and all that.
It really isn’t fair, as others have pointed out, how November/December short story publications tend to get lost in the shuffle between one year and the next.
I have always wanted to do a year’s best roundup, but this is the first year I have read enough releases from a single year to make it worthwhile.
Is there anywhere else in the literary world where a 10,000-word presentation on technology will be happily embraced as leisure reading?
There are lots of reasons, I’m sure, why authors choose children as narrators. Maybe because they are unreliable or innocent narrators, or because they approach situations with less bias and can get into places grown-ups can’t.
Story is a lovely thing, but a story’s language can lovely all by itself. On a story-to-language spectrum, I confess to being a Utilitarian who prefers her reading to slope towards the story end, but while I typically avoid poetry, I do have an anomalous infatuation with nonsense and complicated, probably unnecessarily archaic language.
Fairy tales in their earliest written forms can seem incoherent to a modern reader. They are full of dropped threads, random occurrences, and they often lack logic and context.
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