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Multiple Division

As if high school isn’t hard enough

Amanda Perry

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

Ruth Panofsky

A Developing Situation

Scenes of the first five waves

Mary Hunter
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Allan Weiss

Allan Weiss is a short-story writer living in Toronto. He is a professor of English and humanities at York University, specializing in fantastic literature. His story cycle Living Room appeared in 2001 (Bohème Press). His website is <www.allanweiss.com>.

Articles by
Allan Weiss

Realistic to Bizarre

From photography to a high-school massacre, a range of settings and emotions July–August 2007
A short-story collection may be unified to a greater or lesser extent. At one end of the spectrum is the story cycle, in which the stories are tightly connected through a common theme, character or setting; at the other is the collection in which a motif provides symbolic links in otherwise disparate stories. Structurally and…

A Sextet of Trios

Playing with the sonata form in short-story writing July–August 2005
In 2004, Alice Munro published Runaway, a collection of stories that are, for the most part, unrelated. However, three of the stories—“Chance,” “Soon” and “Silence”—form a trio or perhaps a trilogy (there is as yet no established term for this new form). They deal with the same characters, albeit at vastly different times in their…