Short Story Month, Day 22: "Differently"

Short Story Month, Day 22: "Differently":

During the month of May, The Missouri Review will highlight a single short story to help celebrate National Short Story Month. Weâ��ve asked a diverse group of readers and writers to participate by sharing a short story that demands to be read. Todayâ��s blog post comes from writer Andrew Scott. “A story is not like a road to follow, I said, it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay A story is not like a road to follow, I said, it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last â�¦

Here’s a post/essay I wrote about Alice Munro’s “Differently,” one of my favorite Munro stories.