Nathan Englander's The Urge Of Unbearable Desires

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This first story I wanted to focus on my writing. I always find it difficult coming up with

a story for my readers to read and follow. I tried to set the plot as my second concern, and write

good sentences and put into practice what I’ve learned. Lately I’ve been writing weird, dream

like stories. One of the biggest feedbacks I got from this last year with a different story was to let

the readers know ahead of time what is going on. I don’t want to fully announce it, but I added

key statements that foreshadow what is going on with the narrator.

Nathan Englander’s The Urge of Unbearable Desires influenced this story. It isn’t related

to the plot at all. However, I tried to use one strong sentences here and there in my story’s

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