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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I've been replaying it, trying to break it down and enjoy the subtle differences each time they run outside. It's barely discernible but really rewarding if you can notice spot something.
what happens if it's raining?
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