The Importance of Acceptance

"This is a story about a man who believes he can have some control over the universe, over his life, over the world," says John Sutter. "At the end of the story, as you know I'm going to come to the realization that I have no control over any of it." The trick to any kind of a surprise in a story is first recognizing where surprise is hiding, writes Sutter. 'Surprise is most often hiding in the moment that you were surprised in your real life'

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