Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. (V. S. Pritchett)

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

V. S. Pritchett

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