When a Giant Plucks a Tree
Off it came. Off, right like that, plucked off the earth like a hundred year old
daisy. The Giant yanked up the old tree right there, right in the middle of
town, right
short story
Brevity’s Pull
From the NY Times Magazine – In Praise of the American Short Story
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/weekinreview/05scott.html].
> The near-simultaneous appearance of three new literary biographies offers a