I love the short story: I love its flexibility, its distillation of language, the pressure it exerts on the moment. A story demands that the reader look closely. And yet, despite the intensity and constraints, a story can be surprisingly capacious…

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I love the short story: I love its flexibility, its distillation of language, the pressure it exerts on the moment. A story demands that the reader look closely. And yet, despite the intensity and constraints, a story can be surprisingly capacious…" in the context of "On why she loves writing short stories in “Kirstin Valdez Quade: How I Write” in The Writer (2017 Apr 21)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.