This is something I don't buy. If it were true, a large number, perhaps the majority, of short stories wouldn't work, and they do.
The vast majority of short stories do not work for me for precisely this reason. Which is a statement of personal preference and not meant to have any weight past that.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2005-06-10 03:02 pm (UTC)The vast majority of short stories do not work for me for precisely this reason. Which is a statement of personal preference and not meant to have any weight past that.