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The Turkey:
“God was interested in him because he was a very unusual child.”
God sends turkeys & beggars, and God takes them away. What was the point in the end, but for Ruller to realize that his unusualness was the very thing that made him interesting to God? Not turkeys, not giving to beggars, not his language, nor his parents. Something Awful truly does chase us home when we startle at this realization.
4.5/5

The Crop:
Flannery O’Connor looks at the world and sees irony everywhere. Miss Willerton demands her stories be better than her own life, and little does she know that we readers are enthralled in the story of her actual life, more so than the stories she imagines. I wonder how she would feel reading this story.
3.5/5

The Barber:
A satire about the belief that the best arguments wins. The best argument, in fact, might miss the point altogether. If we miss the humanity in our opposition and neglect our relationships, we not only never make a point, but we never enjoy simple pleasures like a clean shave at the barber shop.
“It was time for Rayber to say something but nothing appropriate would come.”
3/5

The Geranium:
Old Dudley, for whom I had a complex mixture of both disgust and sympathy with by the end of the story, shared in my complex mix of emotions while he watched the neighbor’s geranium. He is the geranium: plucked out of his natural environment, fallen from moral righteousness, roots out on display, disoriented, exposed, and withering.
“…he’d spend his life where he’d always spent it…”
4.5/5