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ss 2025 what i ve been reading writing reading tagged jessica treadway bass 2025 sanjana thakur aishwarya rai from granta may 28 2024 posted by karen carlson on december 23 2025 granta art photograph keerthana kunnath i do think that this story with all its different mothers allowed me the space to explore how variable and complex mother daughter relationships are and how impacted by cultural and societal standards of womanhood and beauty what are the expectations mothers and daughters have of each other what happens when you fall short can you find the perfect mother does such a thing exist sanjana thakur contributor note best american short stories 2025 there s a subgenre of story film i ll call it was in my backyard all along it s frequently found in romcoms the lead longs for the perfect but unattainable partner but eventually discovers the best friend is the real perfection it can be in adventure stories particularly those for children someone goes searching for a place where they can have fun and finds out the most fun is to be had literally in their own back yard the wizard of oz gives a double dose of this phenomenon not only does dorothy gale discover she s had the secret to returning home all along and never needed to see the wizard but she finds out the people in her life are the ones she wants to be with not those over the rainbow maybe you never figure out what you want until you see what else is out there and discover it s lacking avni wants to find a better mother so she goes to the mother shelter and adopts one the first mother avni brings home is too clean she wears white at all times perpetually a mourner and roams the two bed flat with a feather duster tied to her slim wrist don t i look just like aishwarya rai she asks and pours bleach into the bathtub and onto her body scrub a dub dub avni asks her no questions and takes her straight back in the middle of this process of adopting and returning mothers avni has the opportunity to see the actual aishwarya rai through a work assignment it turns out unattainable beauty is as unattainable as motherly perfection it s the fourth mother who is exactly what avni needs not a mother but a mirror someone to give it to her straight someone to point out she already has the ruby slippers cut to heartwarming moment as you might be able to tell i was a little disappointed with this story part of that i ll admit is because i don t understand this idea of motherhood i ve never been a mother cats don t count no matter how much you love them yes i had a mother she died when i was fairly young after a couple of years of serious illness so i don t have any of the warm fuzzy moments mothers are supposed to generate the mother role was filled by other relatives for a while until stepmom came along this worked out fine until it didn t and then it really didn t except for one moment when she came through with a brilliant solution instead of the i told you so she had definitely earned at a time when it was desperately needed maybe that s the motherhood feeling i should be focusing on but some of my disappointment is from the predictable nature of the story maybe those who do connect with motherhood will enjoy watching avni s interaction with the women she invites into her life i saw the differences noticed the progress she was making but wasn t particularly engaged i just don t think it was my kind of story i was also distracted by the idea of the shelter itself the shelter houses one hundred and fifty women who used to be or long to be or have no choice but to be mothers they live in small double rooms with identical furniture they cook together in a common kitchen and grow tulsi plants on the windowsill on sundays they sit in a long line that winds its way past the rooms and around all the living room furniture they oil and braid each other s hair avni did high school community service hours here they seem happy enough to her this is where i wanted to know more the similarity to animal shelters is emphasized by the treatment of the first mother avni returns the story is online link below find out for yourself how do these women come here were they ignored by their families unwanted abandoned abused lost without context this element just hangs there yet it occurs to me that perhaps neglecting this element of the story emphasizes how those mothers in the shelter are in some way neglected by society seeing as they are there instead of in their own homes that s stretching things a bit but it s not impossible i tried thinking of it as the possible fate of avni s mother if their reconciliation were not to happen but avni would have been aware of that from the start it doesn t seem to play a part in her decision making all she sees is her need not her mother s and maybe that s why i m balking this story was the winner of the 2024 commonwealth short story prize so i must be missing something maybe a mother the story can be read online at granta 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 sanjana thakur bass 2025 justin taylor what about this from harvard review 62 posted by karen carlson on december 20 2025 i wrote the first draft of what about this longhand at a coffee shop in winchester tennessee on december 1 2022 during the last days of a difficult semester spent far from home i d been given a generous teaching fellowship that i worried i had squandered by thanksgiving i was desperate for something anything to show for the university s investment in me and my own time thus to the coffee shop where i bought the largest latte they d sell me and proceeded to pour four months worth of writerly anxiety and existential vertigo into a voice suggested by the innocent seminarians in training who in reality it was my privilege to live among in the little university housing village justin taylor contributor note best american short stories 2025 anyone who reads here often will know i tend to like stories with biblical or religious echoes and that i dislike slacker stories but what do i do when i find both of those elements in one story i defected to div school because two good women in cincinnati had hit their limit one blocked my number and the other changed our locks suffice to say it served me right and my thought at the time was that learning to serve might set me right and it might have but i was proving an at best indifferent exegete and and frankly frightened of the prospect of shepherding a flock i came here in a blaze of self abnegation but these people were always trying to get me to stand up and declaim i got in my car cranked the radio too loud to hear my thoughts sick unto death of my own namby heresies and underbreath bitching and jimi was hollering dylan and i decided to drive seven hours south towards the ocean okay gulf to wash and be clean almost got there too from the start i m a little off balance i understand the urge to get the hell outta town and bask in the opposite when one s upright life gets to be too much but how does being rejected by two women propel one into divinity school given that most of the story is the tale of relatively low level as these things go debauchery with occasional mentions of the spiritual path put on hold i m assuming there was something like a call at some point but we aren t privy to it ok fine keep your secrets make it harder see if i care i ll admit the story started out in the red i still remember the justin taylor story i read over ten years ago when i was still reading tny regularly it s fitting that this story is pointless and uninteresting i wrote it s about being pointless and uninteresting as far as i can tell that he s a well honored writer and director of a pretty chi chi writing program doesn t get in the way when i have a bee in my bonnet what does get in the way is that the narrator s voyage isn t entirely pointless nor is it entirely uninteresting in fact there are some gosh darn good sentences in here i m not always sensitive to things like the rhythms of prose but i felt it here more than once the first paragraph which i haven t quoted because it would be too long should be recorded we ve also got a lot of very subtle scriptural phrases woven in not so they stand out unless you re looking for them and what about this the bar had nothing on tap and a blue neon wall skull paying homage to tequila no particular brand just the general proposition marty robbins on the juke and sitting alone in blonde splendor was a clear eyed woman with a high set ponytail plunging down her straight broad back medical boot on her left foot cowboy boot on her right she had a tightly puckered smile from the tequila she d just knocked back in a shot glass shaped like a cowboy boot so three boots total but none to make a pair i really like the boots in spite of myself and i like dragging naaman into things 2 kings 5 look it up kjv please another thing i like a character who sticks to the verily and thee and thou version and how can i resist a story that tailors st augustine to its needs it kept me watching nurse jackie through however many seasons that was and if it s one thing i dislike more than slacker stories it s junkie stories even if the junkies are incredibly sympathetic and often heroic but here it s more of a promise than a request celeste and i spent a week together torrid twice involving the cane so smooth and cool and remorseless against my throat that i saw fireworks and when restored to breath took to my knees by the side of the bed to thank god for hiding for leaving me be i will find you again i prayed adapting the famous passage in augustine i will find you again but not yet please not just yet that really got me so i guess i can live with the missing pieces since the tough guy rhetoric sings often enough more would be too much and i get the idea of knowing it s not time to go home yet that maybe if i throw myself to the winds i ll get a message that will bring me back but maybe not and that s the tension of the story left unanswered go ahead keep your secrets 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 6 comments posted in bass 2025 what i ve been reading writing reading tagged justin taylor bass 2025 william pei shih the masterclass from los angeles review september 2024 posted by karen carlson on december 17 2025 the masterclass originated as a cut from a novel that i was working on but over a summer in paris evolved into a piece of its own encapsulating themes of mentorship the struggles within artistic communities and the complex interplay between ambition and disillusionment william pei shih contributor note best american short stories 2025 some of the stories i ve read so far in this volume have dealt with tragedies with losses beyond any i ve survived and i ve spent more than a few teary moments over these pages but none has caused me the degree of hurt that this story inflicted it s not just because i recognize the emotional landscape but because of the fury i feel at the academic malpractice displayed in the story and at the result the quenching of an artist s love for the art the replacement of creative joy with hopeless apathy the story takes place at a prestigious music festival and is narrated by a young pianist a recent conservatory graduate a record producer asks him to have coffee and discuss potential recording projects this is the kind of meeting a fledgling performer lives for a way to step into the limelight to move a career into a higher orbit also at the festival the pianist s former piano teacher in fact the head of the conservatory from which he graduated now we were all at the music festival together in new england and my piano teacher that well known and widely respected pianist with long fingers that cast even longer shadows who i had wished in all my time at the conservatory to notice me in the way that a coach might notice and pass along their expertise to a budding younger athlete must have seen me and the record producer talking together and from the corner of my eye i watched as my piano teacher made their way over across the verdant lawn as it was the height of summer toward us and come to say hello to me and i was nothing short of elated up until then my piano teacher s schedule had been too busy or full to spend any meaningful time with me at the festival and even during our three years at the conservatory together my piano teacher then saw that we were going to sit down for coffee and to my utter delight and even excitement which i had to find the strength in me to suppress asked if they could join us it was shortly before the masterclass that my piano teacher was about to give at the festival and since we had a few moments to spare i said of course because in truth in all of my time of studying with my piano teacher for one reason or another the music of other people other more important and promising students kept getting in the way oh the eagerness of the student delighted to be finally recognized by his piano teacher the hope that an endorsement might help move the record producer from query to contract we find out a lot more about the many ways the piano teacher left the student to his own devices during the conservatory years fifteen times as i count them fifteen repetitions of educational abandonment of valuing other students other projects more than our pianist ouch it gets a bit repetitious to be honest oh different reasons crop up other students were more promising more attractive better connected in terms of future fund raising but the pianist chose this particular conservatory this particular piano teacher because he favored the same kind of music rachmaninoff turns out the pianist has realized in retrospect that might not have been the wisest choice after all how many rachmaninoff experts can the concert industry support at one time this retrospect has resulted from this very meeting at this very music festival there s a particular exchange where i noted wow in the margin an undercutting so diabolical so obvious it s not really believable but it is believable i believe this is the masterclass of the story i believe the record producer has seen this kind of sabotage a hundred times and kno...
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