The best short story for this wretched week

Sometimes fiction is the best way to tell the hardest stories.

We are given fables and strangeness constantly as children because in a world different than ours it is almost easier to evaluate our own decisions. It’s easier to have empathy with the strange somehow. Then, as adults, we are discouraged from those exaggerations and mutations of our world. We are encouraged to consume “real”things. I think that the myt…