William H. GassFor me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
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The short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock. What I mean by this quote is that the short story is something that you can get lost in and it can become like a self-contained world. If you get lost in it for too long, you could get lost in the writing itself because every word matters and every word matters to the story.
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