Tag Archives: BASS

I’m in the middle of Cory Doctorow’s Anda’s Game (p. 223) and am a little conflicted in my reaction.  It is the story of a young girl (Anda) playing a computer video game online at some future time not far … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Death Defier by Tom Bissell (page 174) goes a bit further into layering stories and presenting the reader with some work to define the theme.  The main story in the past tense third person POV is of a journalist (Graves) … Continue reading → Continue reading →

First Four Measures by Nathaniel Bellows is a rather odd bit of story abut a fourteen year-old boy who tries hard to gain his piano teacher’s approval, and it seems, physical touch, though we aren’t quite sure if it actually … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I want to get one or two more stories read before I do another review of Best American Short Stories – 2005, but this is one of the reasons I read, to catch the writing style, and too often my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There was a recent question raised at the MetaxuCafe forum about story length, and the usual answer would be "when the story has been told and finished."  Or, if must be done, according to the publisher’s specs.  Of course, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eight Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert Lennon is a series of eight vignettes, each telling a short short story (flash fiction) of an episode in the narrator’s home town (only tip-off to first person POV is usually … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m five stories into this, and the main reason I broke my rule about catching up from the past to the present is because another MetaxuCafe member, gzreads, is also reading this now.  It’ll be interesting to compare notes. The … Continue reading → Continue reading →