Thoughts on Short Fiction: Bennard’s Top Five Short Stories
It is extremely hard to create a list of your favorite short stories especially when you reduce such a list to only five pieces of fiction…
Story Reviews: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro, and Jon by George Saunders
The Short Story Station sought the permission of Lynai to publish her reviews of last month’s short story selections. Lynai is “a lawyer, a teacher, a wife to…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
Some of the best writers in the world use geography to their advantage. That is not to say that such writers are adept at naming capital…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
In a time and society pervaded with gender roles and labels, Boys and Girls tell a story of a young girl’s initial confrontation with domesticity. To…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
Boys and Girls, one of the short stories included in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades, is the story of a little girl who, at…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
Boys and Girls is the coming-of-age story of a girl on the cusp of adolescence who is pitted between what she wants and what is expected…
Short Stories of the Month: September 2014
Why short stories? Not even short story collections or anthologies but stand-alone, honest-to-goodness short stories. After all, the novel has often been treated as the measure…
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