When We Don’t Have Twitter, We’ll Enjoy Books Again

Reading ‘Melancholic Parables’ as a parable of Twitter

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In a couple weeks, Dale Stromberg will release his story collection, Melancholic Parables. These reality-bending flash fictions follow key moments in the linked and infinitely recurring lives of Bellatrix Sakakino. As I read these stories now, during this particular historical moment…