December 18, 2015: Semester Recaps: ALFA Class on Contemporary Short Stories

[With this week’s final papers and exams comes the end of another semester at Fitchburg State University, and with it a series of semester recap posts, this time focused on inspiring student work and ideas! Please share your own semester reflections in comments, and/or your spring plans and goals leading up to a predictive weekend post!]When I previewed my Adult Learning course on contemporary short fiction, I didn’t yet know which five authors and texts we’d read. I’m very happy with the ones I picked and the amazing conversations that resulted, and so wanted to share the five stories and authors with you as well. They are:1)      Karl Taro Greenfeld, “Horned Men” (2012)2)      Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Apollo” (2015)3)      Phil Klay, “Redeployment”(2014)4)      Cristina Henríquez, “Goodbyes” (2011)5)      Yelena Akhtiorskaya, excerpt from Panic in a Suitcase (2015)I’d love to hear your thoughts on any and all of these great stories in comments! Spring preview post this weekend,BenPS. What do you think? Other reflections or predictions you’d share?