Burning Thoughts Lookback at 2023
8 stories. Numerous articles on thinking, economics, and society.
Tag: Fiction
Sunday Morning Coming Down
When I said, "Hi, how you doing?" this attractive brunette with a flip hairdo looked at me as if I'd spoken a foreign language. She…
Magazines and Anthologies with Short Stories
I noticed the other day when I posted a snapshot of 'Buffalo Girls' that it was the first novel I'd read in 4 months. After…
Festival at Thurmont
The bright streamers seemed pennants of aristocratic families and fair beauties. Local peasants hawked their handiworks, made in the dim light of the fireside, after…
Different Ways of Weighing the Same Short Story
What counts more to you - style or substance? Can a woman write a male lead as credibly as she writes a female lead? Can…
Relating a Story with a Mysterious Worldview
Hitherto, I could only notice the effect and relate it to a mysterious control the author had over the story. Now I see a way…
Story or Essay
Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka It's a good example of the difference to a reader between a story and an essay. Ms. Otsuka could have…