Short story by Lauren Groff, "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners"
You have to maintain a much more focused attention when reading a good short story versus a novel, because if you skim, you might miss something. For this reason, I find it a little more difficult on my brain to read short stories. But if you're going to write in the form, you should read in the form (and others--I have yet to memorize a poem as was suggested in my workshop last week), so I've been trying. Lauren Groff has a story called "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners" in Best American Short Stories, 2014. You might have read her novel The Monsters of Templeton, or her other short story from a previous Best of collection, "Delicate Edible Birds" (also the name of her book of short stories), I have a vague recollection that that story was about World War II or possibly World War I and a dinner party where the people invited are living it up . I seem to also remember a line about the crunching of tiny bird bones. The Monsters of Templeton
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(Cute picture.)