Kate Connell’s Reviews > The Best American Short Stories 2025 > Status Update
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GCWLE: A look into reality television, a look into how one keeps track of themselves, a question of racial fetishization, and a look at how people grow up.
— Oct 29, 2025 11:35AM
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AED: Actions have consequences, and eventually everyone must face theirs. We cannot cover for the others in our lives in perpetuity.
— Oct 30, 2025 03:18PM
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AR: There is no one ‘right’ way to mother a daughter or daughter a mother. We are all trying our best.
— Oct 30, 2025 03:12PM
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TM: Not everyone is going to achieve the highest honors, and for some people, the reach for achieving never stops, no matter what accolades have been achieved.
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3R: Isolation, other than that damn this was a weird one.
— Oct 30, 2025 12:39PM
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YT: Ehh. Felt like it tried to cram too much in and nothing was developed.
— Oct 30, 2025 10:48AM
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Angelo: Some endings are simply a change, not a true ending or a start of something new, but a shifting of the meaning.
— Oct 30, 2025 10:37AM
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TI&KI: What to do when those closest to you shave different thoughts and desires regarding what to do next?
— Oct 30, 2025 10:27AM
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SSOT: This manages to fully flesh out an entire family of characters in one short story. Also... How old is Tammy?!
— Oct 30, 2025 09:34AM
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TCO: Generational curses can shift and change, each generation does not owe the next or the previous an explanation of their choices.
— Oct 30, 2025 09:08AM
