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The Next-to-Last Time I Was Shot out of a Cannon

The Next-to-Last Time I Was Shot out of a Cannon

Explosive metaphors | Fiction | Canned Soup

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Etgar Keret
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Every time I start writing a story, my pulse rate gets faster. From excitement, but also from fear. The fear of grappling with an unfamiliar situation, the dread of making a wrong choice that might doom my story’s character and, more worryingly, disclose something dispiriting or unflattering about me.
They say the cobbler’s children have no shoes, and I …

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