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“I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits.
(from the review of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners in The Guardian)”
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(from the review of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners in The Guardian)”
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
Alt-Lit
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Lovers and writers of alternative literature, experimental literature, flash-fiction, weird forms. No poetry, no short stories, just worded, narrative ...more
¡ FICTION ! Short Story / Microfiction
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No pretensions: just fiction. Stop by, recommend books, offer up short stories, whether experimental or traditional or in between! Tempt us, taunt us ...more
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