Reading Response 2/18

The short story Survivors from the fiction packet on Canvas gave a good detailed description of how a gay man felt about out living his partner. Even though the story was no more than a page the reader is able to understand the reason the man felt the way he did about wanting to be the first to die. Not wanting to take care of his partner's pet or deal with his partner's un-approving family, he expressed how he felt in a way like he was writing a diary entry.

Another short story that I found had a lot of detail was The Colonel. It gave the reader a lot of detail to where the reader is able to visualize what the author is trying to explain. "I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. His daughter filed her nails"(Forche). The detail helps the reader to visualize the scene of the story as well see what the author has seen. Giving detail in short stories as well as long stories helps the reader to imagine the environment that the author is trying to create or describe. The more detail there is the better the story is because the reader is more engaged and informed. 

Sharon Krinsky's Mystery Stories were very interesting. I didn't realize you could have a paragraph of writing and it be a story. Krinsky's stories were mysteries that the reader had to uncover with little information, but I enjoyed reading them as they reminded me of the poems we had previously gone over. The stories give only some detail into what the author is try to convey somewhat like a diary entry gives only parts of a person's life experiences.