This is part 2 of a podcast of a short story that once received a hand-written rejection notice from “Story” magazine. It’s been submitted to several other literary publications, but never picked up. With that ringing endorsement out of the way, it’s one of my favorite stories, even though it suffers from what I’ll call “College Writer’s Disorder.” That’s when a writer writes about the college experience from within that experience and therefore takes for granted that anybody outside of that experience would understand what it’s like to live in their college town, in their dorm room, with their friends. So they don’t bother to explain any of that.
I don’t really think this story in particular is representative of my current writing style, but I guess that’s probably true of anything I wrote over 10 years ago.
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