The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;. . . In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.
Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn’t you say that? (Nick) Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)