Today's story, "Beautiful Monsters" by Eric Puchner, is, I kid you not, 16 pages long :(
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9:22 p.m. This is from "Tin House", so first order of business: What is "Tin House"?
9:23 p.m. Okay, Tin House have their weeklong Writer's Workshop at Reed College, Portland, Ore., in July, which is when I attend German summer school in Portland, Ore. :) But I really don't go for such extreme short-term stuff ... Let's see what this story is like.
9:44 p.m. 10 pages down. Dystopic, etc. Cigarette break.
9:56 p.m. Back. Does the author's powers of imagination---what I have seen of it so far---even justify the futuristic setting? Or should I just read it as allegory?
9:59 p.m. Four in seven men become bald? :((
10:07 p.m. Done. Should you even be writing at all if and/or when you are this bitter? Someone once told me that one should never write out of spite.
More on Thursday (I think)---
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