Storyological 1.17 - A DIFFERENT KIND OF GHOST

Storyological

Storyological is a podcast about stories. In particular, short stories. In particular, any sort of short story that amazes us. Sometimes we talk about stories in Clarkesworld. Sometimes in Granta. Sometimes we talk about comics. Very occasionally we talk about films. Every episode, writers E.G Cosh and Chris Kammerud discuss how stories work and why they matter and what it is about these particular stories that we love more than anything.

In which we discuss,

1. "Man on the Stairs" by Miranda July, from Fence

2. "presence" by Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

along with, among other things...

Hyuna, “Bubble Pop” and “Ice Cream”
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Voodoo. Who do? You do. Do what? Remind me of the babe.
Maria Konnikova.
Depressive realism.
Depressive realism may not be real.
Hitchcock on cinematic tension.
Yoda, in Empire Strikes Back

A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have a I watched. All his life has he looked away…to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing.
The Silence, from Doctor Who.
What Is Not Yours, Is Not Yours
That cheesy korean song.
The troubles with seeing yourself.
2PM, not 2AM). Also, it turns out 2AM is another boy group. Not, in fact, a girl group.
Repetition, modes of conversation.
That thing Chris remembered Neil talking about is not that different from Ernest Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory, sometimes known as the ‘theory of omission’