The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or three links. The short short, however, doesn't as a rule have even that much - you don't...
Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts: ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima, Shalamov, Babel, W. C. Williams.) In these short shorts the ti...
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.