Representative Short Stories of Lin Bai: Spring, Fairy

Author: Lin Bai
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Features: The short stories included in this book, if published after 1993, are mostly excerpted from longer works. They come from The Moss, Guarding the Hollow Years, Flowers Bloom in All Things, and a yet-to-be-published long story. The author believes it is also like a short story. When the author grows older, they will still write short stories. At that time, the author's mind will have calmed down, and their spirit will no longer be cold. The author will write short stories. The author will ask themselves: What is a short story? Then the author will tell themselves: A short story is simply a short story—it doesn’t have many rules and doesn’t need to be so refined. Isn’t that right? What do the short stories of Pu Songling, Kafka, Chekhov, and García Márquez have in common? Besides being short.