Brevity

I almost feel that if you manage to write a thousand page novel it will be published just because of the effort involved. Therefor the shorter the work, the harder is must be to get published. The pieces of read from the brevity magazine seem to suppord this. Each one seems to accomplish a lot in the page or so of writing. since I perfer writing very short pieces, these authors are my compition, and that scares me.

The piece that most stood out to me is icky papy died because of the way it just leaves you hanging. You spend the entire time wanting to hear more about this scumbag of a relative but the Author doesn't ever tell you, but still in the end you feel satisfied by the piece because you feel like some big issues have been resolved. Lots of big issues were tackled by the author, I liked it a lot.

I also Liked A Bear in Telaviv though I'm still not sure whether it was an actual bear or a chow. I liked how it communicated the idea that only the unusual is frightening.