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1	The Life of Thomas Elberfeld, Mark 18 December 2012 (has links) In this collection of linked stories and shorts, the narrator reflects on important people and events in his life, particularly his high school and college years, primarily through first and second person points of view. The stories “Joanna” and “Honor Roll” are first-person narratives, while “Mr. Finethreads” is told from the third person. “Pictures from a Wedding” and “College \| Collage” are considered modular fiction, which create a mock-autobiography out of the disparate pieces of the overall mosaic. short stories short-shorts mock-autobiography
2	The Forgiveness Project Gentry, Karen Lee 14 April 2010 (has links) The Forgiveness Project includes a critical introduction that defines the author’s approach to the short-short form as well as an explanation of how historiographical metafiction can work to memorialize. The first section contains primarily short-short stories that address the themes of motherhood, small tyrannies, happy liars, caregiving and the clichés of grief. A collection of linked short stories follows, revolving around elusive forgiveness. On the night of July 17, 1977, Juanita Lee, a bridge tender in South Florida, was abducted by two men and executed in the Everglades to silence her opposition to the demolition of an Intracoastal Waterway bridge. Twenty-two years later her daughter, Jill, now a Washington D.C. lobbyist who views the world through the cynical lens of her life’s work, is confronted with a plea for forgiveness via an organization called “The Forgiveness Project,” representing one of her mother’s killers. E. Herbert Norman Ambrosia salad Everglades Florida Sugared-ostrich Forgiveness Short-shorts Historiographical metafiction Canada Banjo clocks Kissimmee River Whisperliner English Language and Literature

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