Short-a-Day: Tessa Hadley's "Honor"
Originally published in The New Yorker, February 7, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 23.I declare a war on storytelling terrorists like Hadley, you know, the sort of people who insist on hijacking their narratives. Unless a short story writer is using a parenthetical style to some greater effect, such actions can only lead to a dulling bloat, the sort that drains from what would otherwise be a meaty stor…