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Fun-Reading: World's Shortest Stories!
A.S. Rafi:
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Story: 4
Here goes one for you from Davis' Collected Stories-
Often I think that his idea of what we should do is wrong, and my idea is right. Yet I know that he has often been right before, when I was wrong. And so I let him make his wrong decision, telling myself, though I can’t believe it, that his wrong decision may actually be right. And then later it turns out, as it often has before, that his decision was the right one, after all. Or, rather, his decision was still wrong, but wrong for circumstances different from the circumstances as they actually were, while it was right for circumstances I clearly did not understand.
:)
A.S. Rafi:
Davis' story is a hard nut to crack! ugh!
A.S. Rafi:
Here is another short story by that 2013 Man Book Prize winner, Lydia Davis:
Story 5:
Losing Memory
You ask me about Edith Wharton.
Well, the name is very familiar.
A.S. Rafi:
The Canadian author Margaret Atwood equaled Hemingway ( Although Hemingway's "Shoes story" is a myth, I already told you!) for brevity with her forthright six-word story:
Story 6:
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
Interesting, eh? :D
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