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An Ode to the Asterisk | One-Shot #17
Unthinkable with Jay Acunzo
The Smallest Story Telling Tool
The asterisk is the smallest story telling device and the tiniest open loop there is. It's a dense little dose of tension, a question you can raise before answering it with the very next clause. We might not tell stories like game of thrones but that doesn't mean we aren't surrounded by stories worth telling. For example, simply by using the word but in that previous sentence, i wrote a more enjoyable, higher impact sentence.
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