The Old Man and the Essay: Responding to the Quizzical Stories

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Mr. Sheehy

Last weekend, during our “spring break” I spent some time in a local coffee shop doing some reading (selections from The Portable Faulkner) and making a withdrawal on the gift card I’d been given (a white chocolate mocha was the item of interest, though my first sip almost burned my esophagus when I forgot how [...]

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Your Naturalist stories

Posted on March 13th, 2008 by Mr. Sheehy

Wow.
I asked for you to write stories to respond to naturalism and show that you understood what it means for a writer to be called naturalist; what I didn’t expect was the quality of the stories. Not that I doubted your creativity, but creativity does not always produce great stories, and you guys have done [...]

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