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Apr 18

Longreads: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1953)

[Fiction] A grandmother’s ruminations on a Southern road trip:

The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind. Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy. He was sitting…

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You know what’s awesome? Southern Catholic women writers who are funny and...than a little...
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best short story ever. EVER.
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I like that I read this, and stories like Mysterious Stranger (lol satan) in high school. And The Stranger. And
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My grandmother taught...in elementary school. Apparently she was a very morbid child and...
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I’m teaching this next week (again), but hey! Now the text is online, which makes it super easy
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This is damn fine story.
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One of my absolute favorites.
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didn’t know longreads was into just posting awesome short fiction that everybody should read from like whenever the fuck
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