Excerpts Konarmija (Red Cavalry) is not simply a collection of stories, nor is it merely a series of sketches, but it is a planned short story cycle, by definition what Forrest Ingram calls “. .....
Stories for each of the clues to a crossword. The crossword acts as an organizing agent and one of three creative constraints which structured the creation of each story....
The article argues that Hemingway and Steinbeck used fishing and marine biology to resist narrative resolution, exploring war's effects on the psyche in their short story cycles....