A truly new plot idea in a short story
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The short Crutches by Amy X. Wang (The Baffler) was surprisingly good. There is no good way to cite it to give you a flavor of it. It is unique. It is raw. It is unflinching. It is kind of about love. There are dogs in it. There are misunderstood and psychotic friends. There is devotion. It’s weird but good.
“At the animal shelter I said, Give me the worst dog available, which turned out to be an oafish, fecal-brown Vizsla missing a back leg. But of course B doted on him. She found endless excuses to come over. She took a hundred pictures of Tokyo expelling sludge in the yard, balanced on his three legs, prism-like.”