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Wrapping up September with CDF, we finished Bird Box and turned in our first short stories of the class. I ended up revising “Frick” and felt pretty good about it, but after reading two of the other student stories, I realized I was outclassed.

Which is a good thing, I suppose, but a little intimidating. My instructor, Richard Thomas, has a book just published that appears to be doing well and got a nice nod from some important magazine I don’t read. I bought it and read the prologue, and really liked it

Well, I just deleted a bunch of small comments I made about a new way to label the genre as “Literary Xxx.” My short answer is that it’s a way to say the author got an MFA. The long answer is way more petty.

Regardless, it is good for me because I enjoy a wide variety of stuff. Most wouldn’t be labeled as “literary.” That is not how people talk or tell stories in real life, but what do I know.