Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern

Author:Jerome Stern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1991-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Dexie hung until he thought his interlocked fingers had melted together; his scraped wrists felt like stretched rubber and his arms had become straight sticks. He felt as though he couldn’t let go if he wanted to; his head lolled forward like a man hanging from his own gallows. He looked down at his floating shoes, untied laces, and the dirt below, and swayed slowly.

Flashbacks need to have a similar immediacy:

I remembered when my father had shown me insects caught in spiderwebs. In our red plaid jackets, we’d squat together in the tall wet grass, and he’d put one arm around my shoulder and point with the other into the depths of the bushes. He’d steady me, pull me close, and turn my shoulders so I could see what he saw. I’d nestle into the wet wool and my eyes would follow his stubby finger to the tiny, silvery webs.

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