Short stories defray from a difficult genre.
Perhaps no other genre encapsulates
the general sensibility of a society
in a particular moment in time as much
as the short stories. The short story is like
a slice of the immediate present.
Novels, because they are usually
long-term commitments, may encapsulate
the ethos of an era; the short story is the temperature
of a moment. Some of them have
a wild and contagious sense of humor; others capture
the desolation and difficult loneliness; many are-timeless-
reaching out into the depths of the absurd to show us how
fragile our conversations around reality and normality.
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