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The Short Story Reader #128 - Born a Ghost by Nadia Bongo

Previous | Next What a beautiful, tragic human tale Nadia Bongo tells! “Born a Ghost” follows a small ghost girl’s life from birth until her twelfth year. This story is a kind of ontology of the ghostly life across this period, a magical tale that hides reality under a thin layer of fiction. It’s not difficult to read Bongo’s story as analogous to class and social conflict (in fact, I find it…

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The Short Story Reader #128 - Born a Ghost by Nadia Bongo

Previous | Next What a beautiful, tragic human tale Nadia Bongo tells! “Born a Ghost” follows a small ghost girl’s life from birth until her twelfth year. This story is a kind of ontology of the ghostly life across this period, a magical tale that hides reality under a thin layer of fiction. It’s not difficult to read Bongo’s story as analogous to class and social conflict (in fact, I find it…

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The Short Story Reader #127 - Spread the Word by Delilah S. Dawson

Previous | Next This psychological horror packs the punch of peak Stephen King, and its subject matter is reminiscent of the master storyteller’s own interests. A strange, religious obsession befalls the dads of Will’s new friends, transforming them, turning them violent and cruel. Will’s no hero, he’s just arrived to town after his own share of troubles with his dad; what’s he, a small kid,…