Omniscience in writing expects no room for mistakes most of the time. If a narrator is omniscient then gaps in logic have to be watched for much...
I vomit words on to paper, take out all the disgusting chunks, then people call it writing. To me it'll always be vomit.
Neruda's "Tonight I can write the Saddest Lines"(Poem XX of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair). http://www.boppin.com/poets/neruda.html...
Honestly, the short story I've thought about most is Shirley Jackson's "the Lottery". Haunting.
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