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The Loneliness of the Short Story

The short story tends to hover towards the great void of loneliness as one of its great preoccupations. So when you write when yourself, it just seems to be one of the emotions that draws the story writer to us. Because it is lonely, right? I have a collection of quotes that I've kept kind of forever. And there's this bit that I think probably has affected high work. The boy would stand in courtrooms with his smile. He would sit in the dark offices of social workers. By looking at him now, you could sense that future. Is that hard? No, that's brilliant. This is the compassion. However, people are in his novels. They have

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