
“K ardos gives students uncomplicated access to the mysterious process of I lookįorward to teaching with this book as soon as it is available.” Informative and enlightening as it is interesting and fun to read. “K ardos’s instruction is clear and down-to-earth - and the prose is as ⁓ Randall Silvis, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Kardos wisely focuses on the ‘nuts & bolts’ “W hat I like best, and what is too often missing in other writing texts, is ⁓ Stephen Watkins, University of Mary Washington The minute you guys publish this book, I’m ordering it - and requiring Honestly, I can’t see how Kardos might improve it. “This is the perfect text on narrative technique and story writing forĬollege fiction writers. Teaching creative writing (/litbits).ġ thinking, reading, & writing like a writerĢ the extreme importance of relevant detailĥ creating scenes: a nuts & bolts approachĦ organizing your story: form & structureġ1 the mechanics of fiction: a writer’s boot camp He also writes for Bedford’s LitBits, where he blogs about Starkville, Mississippi, where he co-directs the creative writing program at In The Writer’s Chronicle and Writer’s Digest. Schooner, and his essays about fiction have been published Journals as The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, and Prairie

The Three-Day Affair, named by Publishers Weekly as aīest book of fall 2012. The story collection One Last Good Time and the novel

It may sound amusing to think of speaking technology but if they become controlling over humans, then there surely be repercussions of it.Michael Kardos () is the author of At the beginning of the story, the narrator finds fresh groceries lying outside his house worth 300 euros, ordered by his fridge on the command of LOONY GOONY. The theme which is suggestive through the narrator's interaction with technology in the story is that technology and progress have setbacks. The narrator is responding to LOONY GOONY who kept on singing it's promise of energy as labelled on the can 'ONE TRILLION TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN ESPRESSO!!!!!ONE11!' The narrator repeats statements 'No you're not' in paragraphs 8 and 14. To this, the narrator repeatedly replies in paragraphs 8 and 14 that the drink is not energetic as it promises to be.

The narrator is trying to get rid of the drink can but it kept on promising energy to the narrator if he will open it up and drink it.

In the story, the narrator interacts with his refrigerator, who ordered groceries worth 300 euros, and LOONY GOONY, a drink. The story is about human interaction with technology, that can speak. ' The Brave Little Toaster' is a short story written by Cory Doctorow. The theme that author wants to convey through people and technology's repetitive interaction is that 'progress in technology have drawbacks, He is responding to LOONY GOONY, a drink's can. The repeated statement by Mister Toussaint in paragraphs 8 and 14 is 'No you're not.'
