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When we got off the bridge, I pulled over and stopped, gave her my handkerchief. She fixed her face in the mirror, looked at me with a rictus of a smile.

When the figures rose on the hills it was with a swirl of dirt so they looked like silver ghosts, dervishes.

The anonymous Spanish work Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the first picaresque novel, began an enthusiasm that spread to other countries, but the masterpiece of the form is Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

Don’t confuse epigram with epigraph, which refers to those quotations some writers like to put in the front matter of their novels and stories.

Anything revelatory or portentous at the end of the story is very heavy indeed.