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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 21: “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” by Nadine Gordimer

May 21, 2023May 24, 2023

Gordimer refuses to level judgment herself in the story.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 20: “Expecting” by Steven Heighton

May 20, 2023May 21, 2023

Imagery involving implicit threat is threaded throughout the story.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 19: “The Harvest” by Amy Hempel

May 19, 2023May 21, 2023

How much of "The Harvest" is true to the facts of Hempel's experience is unclear, and also unimportant.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 18: “Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire” by Neil Gaiman

May 18, 2023May 20, 2023

Gaiman is commenting on our various prejudices regarding where genre work falls in the realm of literary respectability.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 17: “Doi Moi Beans” by Philip Huynh

May 17, 2023May 18, 2023

"Doi Moi Beans" is a story about exploitation; not the obvious kind, but the subtle version.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 16: “Wedding Day” by Gwendolyn Bennett

May 16, 2023May 17, 2023

Bennett's story, though relatively brief, is a subtle excavation of racial, class, and gendered power dynamics.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 15: “Willing” by Premee Mohamed

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023

The story operates in the subgenre that has typically become known as folk horror.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 14: “Amberine” by Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

May 14, 2023May 14, 2023

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar's story addresses the nuances involved in the anti-vax movement via the eponymous character.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 13: “Title” by John Barth and “Elements of the Short Story” by Stuart Ross

May 13, 2023May 13, 2023

Barth, like Ross, writes in a highly ironic mode.

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31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 12: “Rhubarb” by Lauren Carter

May 12, 2023May 13, 2023

The key symbol for reclaiming something of youth's vigour and potential is the rhubarb that serves as the story's title.

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