Varieties of the Fantastic in Fiction

While reading “The Resident,” I concluded that this is one of the most interesting stories we have read this semester. The complexity of the main character struggling to find her memories while juggling her writing and anti-social tendencies was really interesting. It left me, as a reader, wondering if the main character had experienced something that made […]

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“The Other Town” is about a town that is being completely replicated in an adjacent town, even down to the smallest details. The odd part is that nobody lives in this replicated town; however, it is frequently visited by residents of the adjoining town. It is compared to a museum during the story. In spite of these […]

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We are slaves to technology and in Steven Millhauser’s short story “The Other Town,” the nation seems to comment on our TV-dominated lives. In the story, a strange little tale is told about two towns that are exactly alike in nearly every way. They are separated by a small swath of woods that could easily […]

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