Status Updates From The Best American Short Sto...

(little beast - 5) no by all means ms. zhang, don’t hold back

(biology - 4.5) oh kevin you’ve done it again

(palaver - 3) kind of interesting but a little too distant to be truly enjoyable

(you are my dear friend - 4) crafty and witty and ominous—this is such a Story

(haguillory - 2.5) what! is the obsession with dead pets in this collection… jesmyn explain

(a way with bea - 3) dull!

(love story - 2) like if a commencement address at a midsize liberal arts college were a short story

(in this sort of world, the asshole wins - 5) holy shit

(the last days of rodney - 5) realizing how much i love stories that fictionalize real people/events

(portrait of two young ladies - 5) UGHHDHEHEJJEJEJRKELRLRLFLFL

(good boy - 2) the point the story makes is fascinating but i loathed the way it was written

(paradise - 4.5) would read a whole novel with these characters

(clementine, carmelita, dog - 5) my fuckass dog is NOT thinking all that

(switzerland - 5) extreme marlena vibes

(playing metal gear solid v: the phantom pain - 5) extraordinary

(escape from the dysphesiac people - 2.5) didn’t really come together for me. a little too vague and circumferential, orbiting the real story from a distance. which is sad, because the premise is really quite interesting, connecting boys’ ranches to native internment camps

(the rest of us - 5) my spanish minor swinging by two fingernails off the edge of usefulness as i read this magnificent story

(our children - 4.25) an odd, dreadful little tale

(the miracle girl - 4.5) i would’ve done a lot worse if i were xiao xue i’ll tell you that much

(to buffalo eastward - 3) TOLEDO
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