The other aspect of these short-shorts that is not new, but not done much these days: I've opted for plain speech that is, for the most part, not snarky and not pretending to be omniscient. I think we have too much of that in contemporary American writing, and in the culture in general, a sort of empty smartness...
"No, it's not empty smartness, it's just trying for something original and interesting," I hear someone reply. Maybe so. But I'm still trying for simplicity.
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