Andy Mozina

Upsetting the platitudes

by Keith Taylor

posted 9/1/2007

The short story, like any other art form, responds to fashion. The dominant fashion at the moment — a certain genuine wittiness that exposes a gently bizarre character often at swim in a sea of commodities — has temporarily marginalized both traditional stories heavy on character development and the riskier stories of the truly bizarre. Luckily,

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