Posts Tagged ‘Raymond Carver’
Yard Sale: Let’s Start a Story
Cathy and I got some great bargains at Kroger today. Oak milk, two cartons for four dollars; quarts of vegan ice cream, buy one, get one free. Sometimes it takes so little to delight us. Thank goodness for the upright freezer in our basement. So that’s it. That’s the end of the story. It isn’t…
Read MoreTechniques for Avoiding Melodrama and Sentimentality
One of my favorite stories is Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing.” This is the story of a couple, Ann and Howard Weiss, whose son, Scotty, on the morning of his eighth birthday, steps off a curb and gets hit by a car. He falls, striking his head, but he gets up and seems to…
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