31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “Meet You at the Door” by Lawrence Hill
Hill's short story was first published in the Walrus in 2011.
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Hill's short story was first published in the Walrus in 2011.
The story has numerous commonalities with Everil Worrell's pulp horror tale "Leonora."
Worrell foregrounds the degree to which male members of the medical establishment dismiss or ignore women's complaints.
Short story writers operate in a literary form that seems endlessly malleable, protean, and open to experimentation.
Each of these anthologies features a range of subjects and approaches, testifying to the richness of the landscape in Canada.
"I'm interested in that idea: when we transform ourselves, are we transforming our pain?"
"These stories ask the question What is a monster? and complicate the definition of 'monster' along the way."
The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.
Traces of writers as diverse as Daniil Kharms and Jorge Luis Borges are detectable in the collection.
Its generic inappropriateness notwithstanding, "What We Can Know About Thunderman" is worth the price of the current volume all on its own.