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Academic writing/ Close Reading

August 6, 2023

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer Michael Martone|An Essay on Craft|”The Title: A SHORT SHORT STORY’S OWN SHORT SHORT STORY”


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June 27, 2023

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|’THE TWO TAILS’ or ‘THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHER’|by Augusto Monterroso”


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May 24, 2023

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ryan Griffith’s ‘Thrill of Fire’”


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February 17, 2023

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Italo Calvino’s|’The Man Who Shouted Teresa'”


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January 7, 2023

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Richard Plant’s|’Flatland'”


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October 24, 2022

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Cutter Streeby|”A Review of ‘Ouafa and Thawra:|About a Lover from Tunisia’ by Arturo Desimone”


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September 12, 2022

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Robert Bly’s|’Warning to the Reader'”


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May 20, 2022

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”


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April 27, 2022

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”


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February 13, 2022

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'” 


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