I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.
Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.
...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
What we fear we often rage against.