8 Short Stories About People Who Want What They Can’t Have

Short stories, to me, are sparked by desire. I don’t mean they’re all love stories, though they certainly can be. I mean they are collisions or conflagrations, small or spectacular traffic accidents in which the desires of one person bump up against the impossible—whether in the form of some unattainable dream or the competing desires […] The post 8 Short Stories About People Who Want What They Can’t Have appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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