Category Archives: Melancholy

Detail in Mike Meginnis’ “Navigators”

Posted on January 2, 2014 by alex

Best American Short Stories 2012 – “Navigators” by Mike Meginnis As someone who caught the tail end of the NES-generation games, this story strikes a special chord for me. Told in limited third-person narration from Joshua’s point of view, “Navigators” … Continue reading →

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“Your Fate Hurtles Down at You” by Jim Shepard

Posted on February 10, 2012 by alex

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories originally published in Electric Literature I’ve watched Jim Shepard undertake a massive project of research and imagination for about a year now. When a story in 2010’s Best American Short Stories appeared as “The Netherlands … Continue reading →

Posted in Fate, First Person, Historical fiction, in medias res, Jim Shepard, Melancholy, Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011, Short Story, Subtle | Leave a comment

T.C. Boyle’s “When I Woke Up This Morning Everything I Had Was Gone”

Posted on March 3, 2011 by alex

by T.C. Boyle in Tooth and Claw The narrator of this story has a few things he wants to tell you. Beginning in a bar, you pretty much know how this story is going to turn out, but that’s not … Continue reading →

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