Tepper's short tale is a twist on the old doors metaphor/game show/whatever you will. She tells us what is behind each one, asking us to guess the answer to a simple question. The story, if it is such a thing, is somehow mysteriously and unexplainably powerful, which is really the best kind of power a story can have. Read it here at Pure Slush.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
On "Soup Bean Annie" by Linda Simoni-Wastila (441 words) ***
Simoni-Wastila conjures up a voice here that is fun to delve into. Yes, in a way, we've seen it before, but not in a long time and not quite like this. It reads as singular here. The story is a simple one, a woman waiting on her man to return. But the piece becomes more than the sum of its parts when one gets to the end, where the author hints at what might really being going on, which is more than we wish to imagine. Read the story here at Pure Slush.
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