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planned to return to new york the following month to attend a conference or maybe to speak on a panel or it was possibly the case that he was receiving an award the details were unclear because the writer had transitioned so abruptly into descriptions of his winter plans that for several minutes i thought he was describing deeds accomplished by the narrator of his novel this new novel s narrator would have a name the writer s name and his deeds would unfold in familiar fully realized cities that s pretty serious slippage between author and narrator there i only wish i had a better grasp on the narratological theory i think i m glimpsing still it provided me with an interesting few hours in the rabbit hole and convinced me this story is far more complex than i can untangle i take comfort that editor celeste ng in her introduction indicated her own puzzlement it hooked me with its strangeness but stayed with me because of its haunting yet comic depiction of isolation and loneliness i still can t say i know what it means but i can tell you i m still thinking about it yes that s exactly it now about that contributor note i quoted only a small part of it above the part that made the most sense in terms of how the story came about but there s much much more it begins the apartment where i began and finished this story belonged to a psychologist she offered me the place on a handshake after a five minute conversation during which she complimented my aura this was five months before i saw a different psychoanalyst in del valle who described my dreams as suffused with atavistic fear at the start of our first session the psychoanalyst drew my attention to the sound of a bird nesting beyond the window he sent me home with a gabapentin prescription and advised me against reading or writing before bed i suppose i followed the psychoanalyst s advice because i wrote this story over the course of an afternoon in the last sunny month of the year i composed it at the dining table in an apartment far too large for a life willingly circumscribed to a kitchen a bathroom and a bed where i spent hours reading shakespeare s sonnets and feeling guilty for not reading enough latin american literature julian robles contributor note best american short stories 2025 that s about half of it there s more than a hint of an autobiographical approach to the story given this information thus reinforcing the idea of author narrator confusion and the contributor note is as hypnotic as the story in spite of the unresolved issues raised by this story or perhaps because of them i want to read more by robles he has several other pieces some of which are online and i think i might enjoy an afternoon going through them listening to the rhythm of the rails as the train moves through undiscovered countryside the story is available online at the drift in lieu of a website this brief interview from three years ago provides some insight into robles work an article referencing narratological imperatives by françoise jaouën civility and the novel de pure s la prétieuse ou le mystère des ruelles can be found on jstor a second article referencing narratological imperatives by k f hilliard showing telling and believing günter grass s katz und maus and narratology can also be found on jstor share this share print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 1 comment posted in bass 2025 what i ve been reading writing reading tagged julian robles bass 2025 nathan curtis roberts yellow tulips from harvard review 61 posted by karen carlson on december 11 2025 material for a story was all laid out for me but i started off with some foolish ideas i felt like such an outsider in suburban utah i couldn t imagine myself in the place where i really did live so i started writing about someone who fit in i struggled for months to get anything worthwhile onto the page aside from the story s basic scaffolding i took a long break from the manuscript and when i came back to it the problems seemed obvious the story wanted to be about a misfit the narrator needed more of me in him the process of crafting this story helped me find some beauty and grace in a religion i hadn t believed in since i was sixteen one that rejected me before i ever had a chance to reject it nathan curtis roberts contributor note best american short stories 2025 welcome to abe sorenson s world in the very mormon utah suburb as covid rolls in his wife took off for a collective some years ago a cooperative lavender farm in oregon was anything ever so lesbian in its signifiers so he s on his own making a home for their 30 ish son brigham whose intellectual impairments often make that a challenge roberts shows us abe s world with an ironic if slightly tense humor rather than bitterness it was his mother who chose the name brigham i would never have the person who gives her son such a name is at the far end of a pendulum swing and it s inevitable that it will come hurtling back the other way some folks especially in our religion are given to extremes extreme belief extreme disbelief wendy tried both several times and finally settled on disbelief we were introduced during our senior year of college by the bishop of our singles ward he could only have been a few years older than us but back then i regarded him as mature authoritative and pleasing to the eye you two have the same problem he told us i believe you might be able to help each other out i m happy to say this isn t a hatchet job on the lds church there s bill nilsson all around good guy who helps his neighbors including abe and proves that a judgmental mindset and tiny acts of random cruelty aren t necessary for believers then there s meghan palmer who proves that while not necessary they are certainly possible take for example her reaction when abe and brigham start taking walks that go by her house meghan palmer called to ask that we no longer use the sidewalk in front of her house during our morning walks there is a type of audacity only a mormon lady can muster but he s upsetting people he wants to hug everyone when we re supposed to be keeping six foot distance he s happy about all of the things that make the rest of us terrified myself included everything that makes the rest of us nervous gives brigham the thrills i can understand brigham s excitement all of christendom looks forward to the end of the world whichever way they see it happening death itself is a glorious freedom from this world of sin the saved have tickets to the bosom of abraham so why be scared there are even a few believers who sway political parties to get to the second coming sooner brigham may not have an impressive iq but he gets the subtext just fine and that makes people uncomfortable most of us don t really want to examine our fundamental beliefs too closely the story plays with all these elements and a few more besides but it really comes down to the tulips i have to admit i m a little undecided about how to read the tulips but let s try apparently deer love to eat tulips and pretty much anything else that people plant in their gardens except daffodils which contain a toxin to ward off snackers this forms the basis of abe s view of yellow tulips it appeared the deer were also quarantining because the tulips in our bowery and on englewood drive were allowed to bloom that year but only the yellow ones i ve long felt resentful of yellow tulips they are redundant with daffodils which are more resistant to disease and deer what tulips are good for is their variety of colors and for getting eaten up as buds before they have a chance to present themselves meghan palmer s house had a whole patch of them yellow tulips in among the yellow daffodils i initially read this as a resentment of conformity in this case of color and a desire for diversity but in light of abe s recollection towards the end of the story of bill nilsson s view of yellow tulips when abe complains about them i want to re think that don t you think tulips have a right to exist a right to try to exist even the yellow ones they might not make it through to blooming but imagine how much more beautiful the world will be if they do we owe it to them to let them try we owe it to ourselves he was delivering a homily that much was obvious but what mystical old man wisdom was he trying to impart that everyone deserves a chance to thrive on their own terms at the time i assumed he was referring to brigham i realized now he was talking about me or wendy or both of us we had the same problem as the handsome young bishop said abe follows this up with a mental homily of his own of a time when the pandemic is in the rearview mirror it s lovely these last sentences i read them out loud a few times and i had to reconsider my view of abe s disregard for yellow tulips maybe he was focusing on their lesser function if the purpose of tulips is to bring a variety of color into the world yellow tulips fail just like certain people could be disparaged for failing to fulfill what some might consider their purpose or maybe he s absorbed the community attitudes towards heteronormativity and has translated it to a prohibition against monochromatism until bill presents a defense that allows an entire rainbow to bloom in any case it s not only warm and fuzzy it s a fun story to read with lots of little moments i haven t even mentioned i wish it were available online but that s how it goes sometimes and to top things off i just got my copy of pushcart 2026 and this is one of two stories from this bass volume that s a double hitter visit the author s website to find out more about his work share this share print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 3 comments posted in bass 2025 what i ve been reading writing reading tagged nathan curtis roberts bass 2025 andrew porter angelo from ploughshares 50 1 posted by karen carlson on december 8 2025 at its heart angelo is a love story but it s also about that period in one s life when so much seems both possible and impossible when your vision of your own future changes daily and because i wrote the opening paragraph of the story first i knew all along what the future would hold for angelo and cole i knew where they d end up i just didn t know why so that s what the story was about for me going back to the beginning to discover why andrew porter contributor note best american short stories 2025 growing up is hard to do just google that phrase you ll find a bazillion articles on how hard it is how to survive it why it s so hard and how some people never quite manage it growing up s a bitch and for some people it s extra hard through no fault of their own that s probably why the coming of age story is so popular in the literary canon porter starts this particular coming of age story in the present so we get to see the result before the process evenings i meet angelo in the parking lot behind whataburger to get high this has become such a ritual that we don t even talk about it anymore we just meet up in the same spot right behind the dumpster a small patch of creosote bushes that shield us from any onlookers it used to be that we d drive over to angelo s apartment afterward and watch the news or watch the spurs but angelo is married now he s been married almost six months and so we don t do that anymore instead we just pass a joint back and forth sit in his car for about an hour or so listening to music and occasionally talking but mostly just sitting there quietly a ritual we ve shared since high school since longer probably than either of us can remember the age is unclear maybe they re eighteen maybe they re twenty five it s clear there s a bond between angelo and cole a strong one that draws them together for an hour every night but the scene is devoid of joy of energy of life there s just this quiet communion and just as porter had to write the story to figure out how they got there we have to read the story for the same reason the core of their relationship forms during the summer between their junior and senior years in high school when angelo rents a small artist s studio in a little community of artists even though they ve both got heavy things to deal with it still feels like an idyllic time angelo paints and cole hangs out sometimes they spend the night together sometimes they don t sometimes they talk sometimes they don t another artist across the courtyard asks cole if they re going out he tells her they re just friends she gives him a little smile a lesser author would describe as knowing but porter knows we ll figure that out for ourselves maybe that s a crucial difference between a literary story and pulp fiction the author gives the reader enough context and trusts the reader to put it together are they friends or lovers even they don t seem to know but they don t seem too concerned about putting a label on their relationship it is what it is and that s good enough still i knew how it looked to some people and knew what other people were probably thinking and saying i knew that what angelo and i were didn t make a lot of sense even to us that we weren t something that was easily defined or categorized that we weren t something that was easily explained or understood while angelo has the talent cole has the faith that it ll take him where he wants to go risd for instance angelo isn t so sure yeah he won a contest in san antonio but what s san antonio they talk a little about what it will mean to them if it does happen since cole isn t likely to ever get out of san antonio after a while he put out his cigarette on the ground and then leaned his head on my shoulder a rare display of public affection i looked around the rest of the courtyard to see if anyone could see us but the courtyard was empty now no one in sight plus he said if i left i d probably end up missing you too much you know he tapped his leg we could write letters i said like in the olden times you mean like the 1980s no i said like the 1880s with a quill and shit i think you re thinking of the 1780s he said and laughed shaking his head see i said that s why i need you to stick around to keep me from saying dumb shit like that yeah that s my point he said shaking his head again that s my point exactly it s one of those tortured moments of growing up you ve got something great 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