Hello again everybody! This week we’re going to be taking a look at Flannery O’Connor’s 1953 story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.“
Quick word of warning, though: this story goes to some very, very dark places. Like, child murdery places.
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So, a lot of Greek heroes tend to have one specific fatal flaw: hubris, or excessive pride. And there are fewer Greek heroes hubrisier than Bellerophon.
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Hello and welcome to the newly rebranded Short Story Sundays! This week I’m going to be looking at a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.”
Continue readingSo, the way that my work schedule is set up makes working on the blog on Fridays kind of difficult. Basically, I have to work very early on Saturday mornings, which means I have less time to just chill out after work on those days.
For that reason, Short Story Saturdays will become Short Story Sundays. I’m hoping that by doing this I’ll be better able to work on these posts, since a) Saturdays at my job are usually very quiet so I can work on this stuff at the same time, and b) I don’t work on Sundays so have a bit more time to decompress after work and work on blog stuff.
So the next short story post will be on Sunday going forward, starting on the 24. Of course, if you subscribe to my Patreon, you will still get to see these posts early, as patrons get to see posts a day early. Just something to think about. 😉
A while back I talked a bit about how the Norse believed that the world would end. So this time let’s talk a bit about how they believed that the world got started.
Unsurprisingly, it involves murder.
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Have you ever read a story that actually kind of changed the way you think about things? Because I just did. That story was “Smartening Up,” the first story in an anthology called Where The Wild Ladies Are, written by Aoko Matsuda and translated by Polly Barton.
First, a shoutout to my younger sister, who got me this book as a Christmas gift. She knows me too well.
Also, as a content warning: the story does have a mention of suicide.
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Well, I’m back, and this time I’m going to talk about the jorōgumo, a type of yōkai that shapeshifts and eats people. Which, now that I think about it.
Also, just as a warning, I’m going to be talking about spiders.
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