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Absolutely Fourth Street
My story, “Absolutely Fourth Street” has been published in the March 2019 issue of the Blue Lake Review. http://bluelakereview.weebly.com/absolutely-fourth-street.html
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T.C. Boyle’s Constructed Realities
TC Boyle’s fiction is satiric, surreal, comic, and dark. His first book, Descent of Man, published in 1979, is an eclectic collection of short stories that incorporate elements of popular culture, anthropology, and psychology. Several stories in this collection start … Continue reading →
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Surrealism and Sarcasm in Aimee Bender’s Fiction
The stories in Aimee Bender’s first collection of short stories, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, published in 1998, contain, to varying degrees, surrealism and sarcasm. In her best stories, these are not mere affectations but are pathways to deeper, … Continue reading →
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