HeyJaredLeaflet
Bird photos, notes about reading, and the odd essay from the novelist Caleb Crain
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Short king (opens the original)
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An outtake (opens the original)
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“Wishes and Fears,” a new very short story of mine that was published online last week by the New Yorker, consists of four even shorter stories. Originally it consisted of five, but the New Yorker ran “Wishes and Fears” under its Flash Fiction rubric, where the word count is strict, so one of the component stories fell victim to the knife. The lost episode was the densest, most abstract, and least sensuous of the bunch, so the choice to lose it makes sense, but I like it anyway, if only out of t
“Wishes and Fears” (opens the original)
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“Wishes and Fears,” a new, very short story of mine, composed of four even shorter stories, is published online today in the New Yorker. Enjoy!
On Going Viral (opens the original)
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