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Fiction
Bent into fable
Stories that swell with feeling
by Geordie Williamson •
‘I think it is the art of the glimpse’, said William Trevor of the short story.
If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.
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