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This Month's Selection Is:

The Observable World 
​by Marcela Fuentes
 

Email us at minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com for a pdf file of this story to read, download the file below or drop in to pick up a printed copy.
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Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Texas Highways Magazine, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her work has been anthologized in New Stories from the Southwest, Best of the Web, and Flash Fiction International. Her story, “The Observable World” will appear in the Pushcart Prizes XLVII : Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition. She was born and raised in Del Rio, Texas. Her debut novel MALAS (spring 2024) and linked story collection MY HEART HAS MORE ROOMS THAN A WHOREHOUSE are under contract with Viking Books. -marcelafuentes.com

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Click these links to read past short story selections
People in Hell Just want a Drink of Water by  Annie Proulx
Madame Lazarus by Maile Meloy
The Big Cat by Louise Erdrich

Accomplice by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
​Being Chased by Annie Dillard

If the City Falls by Evanthia Bromiley
Fran's Friend has Cancer by Jess Walter
​Ogallala by Rick Bass
The Third and Final Continent by Jhumpa Lahiri

The 5:22 by George Harrar

Here are some reader responses to our
​short story selections:

Being Chased by Annie Dillard
"When Annie Dillard tells us that, "You have to fling yourself at what you're doing, you have to point yourself, forget yourself, aim, dive" she's telling us the words she lives by and probably the wholehearted approach she has to everything including her writing. This, no doubt, is what has made her successful. "I was cherishing my excitement," and realized that the man whose car they snowballed, cherished it too. "The point was that he had chased us passionately without giving up..."I wanted the glory to last forever." That passionate pursuit is what she values. "I would have died happy for nothing since has required so much of me..." She even calls their pursuer, "that sainted...man."
Dillard's description of obstacles in the chase add speed and excitement to her narrative: "over picket fences, through thorny hedges, between houses, around garbage cans, across streets.: The irony of the story is that even though they knew what they did was wrong and the man knew it too, they all loved "every sliding joyous step." -Eileen Curran-Kondrad
"As you read the story it was as though you were there. The excitement! The terror!
The experience of giving it one’s all, nothing held back. No fear of punishment, just delight in the glory of the victor. The wow factor of the driver’s persistence! A kid’s experience of an everyday adventure. Exhilarating!!!" -Donna W. From Hill
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