31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 21: “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” by Nadine Gordimer
Gordimer refuses to level judgment herself in the story.
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Gordimer refuses to level judgment herself in the story.
Imagery involving implicit threat is threaded throughout the story.
How much of "The Harvest" is true to the facts of Hempel's experience is unclear, and also unimportant.
Gaiman is commenting on our various prejudices regarding where genre work falls in the realm of literary respectability.
"Doi Moi Beans" is a story about exploitation; not the obvious kind, but the subtle version.
Bennett's story, though relatively brief, is a subtle excavation of racial, class, and gendered power dynamics.
The story operates in the subgenre that has typically become known as folk horror.
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar's story addresses the nuances involved in the anti-vax movement via the eponymous character.
Barth, like Ross, writes in a highly ironic mode.
The key symbol for reclaiming something of youth's vigour and potential is the rhubarb that serves as the story's title.