“The following tales are properly called “stokus.” A stoku is an amalgam of short story and haiku. It is story as it inclines towards a flash of a moment, insight, vision or paradox. It’s origin is mysterious, its purpose is revelation, its form compact, its subject infinite. Its nature is enigma as it finds tentative […]
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“Novels the Length of Nosebleeds?”
I’m always on the look out for ideas that help me imagine what the “brittle” in Brittle Paper means. I found a statement made by Sara Levine, a writer from Illinois. Her short story, “The Following Fifteen Things, A Love Story,” is the quirkiest love story I ever read. Anyway the quote I found could […]
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