Sometimes with all we’ve got going on, an episode is all we can handle, or commit to.Ī portrait of a woman who loves short stories. Though, think more Black Mirror than Game of Thrones. They can be episodic in a way that those of us who enjoy the golden age of television (aka, now) can appreciate. Short stories fit our busy, over-scheduled on-the-go lives. Sure, a short story tends to be more than 280 characters, but they are typically, as the name suggests, short. It probably has something to do with how we-we being society-have come to appreciate brevity. To be honest, they seem particularly appealing right now.
There is never enough time to read everything you want.īut the beginning of this year has brought a bunch of short story collections to my desk and I’m excited to read pretty much all of them.
And then I forgot about short stories for a bit and focused on novels and magazine articles and essays. I also tackled Raymond Carver and Alice Munro and Flannery O’Connor and Junot Diaz. My short story reading grew up a little bit and away from fairy tales thanks to high school (hi, JD Salinger’s Nine Stories) and university (oh hello, James Joyce’s Dubliners). Of course, fairy tales aren’t usually lumped in with short stories when we talk about fiction. (Except for my Faber Book of Favourite Fairy Tales that had creepy illustrations and which was kind of scary, but in the best possible way.) I still have those early-years short story collections in my modest library and I still read them-to me they will always be the books that showed me reading is rewarding and not that scary. Those were my first short stories, read to me by parents and grandparents. My own personal love of short stories cannot be untangled from my love of myths and fairy tales.
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