"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
The Cry of the Sloth Sam Savage. Coffee House Press. $14.95, 224 pp.
“He paced to and fro, sometimes wringing his hands in agony, and often making his own woe a theme of scornful merriment.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet
In Sam Savage’s The Cry of the Sloth we are stuck with Andrew Whittaker, literary magazine [...]
The elements of fiction are: character, plot, setting, theme, and style. Of these five elements, character is the who, plot is the what, setting is the where and when, and style is the how of a story.