Short-a-Day: Ben Marcus's "Rollingwood"
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mar. 21, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 51.It must suck to be the one guy in the room who actually cares. The story opens with "It's still dark when the weeping erupts, so Mather knows it's early," so right from the start, we can see how calm and rational our protagonist is. He'll need such cool, for the story consists of the world slowly but consistently …
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