No, they’re not stories that are mad at you: short story collections offer a window into ideas, themes, and feelings, as well as providing an author the chance to flex their writerly muscle, honing every paragraph down to perfect sentences; sentences to perfect words. As Andrew Forbes wrote of short stories on his piece about Anna Leventhal’s Sweet Affliction, short stories are “truth minus the sprawl.”
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No, they’re not stories that are mad at you: short story collections offer a window into ideas, themes, and feelings, as well as providing an author the chance to flex their writerly muscle, honing every paragraph down to perfect sentences; sentences to perfect words. As Andrew Forbes wrote of short stories on his piece about Anna Leventhal’s Sweet Affliction, short stories are “truth minus the sprawl.”We’ve compiled wonderful short story collections with similar thematic elements in this rather Wonderbread-ish infographic below. All of the books featured are listed in the index below the image. Happy reading, and happy short story month!
