You are asking too much of me. You must realine that I get an awful lot of these lettera iand you can't expect me to write your thesie for yo It should be fairly obvious to you what the role of the ahort story is in modern literature It's a big one Study particularly the American short story writera like Henry and Runyan and Hawthorne and Poe. and lota and lots of ish ones. dope on ne there have been an awful If you want lot of profilea in English nagazinea over the paat year iltarting vith the Pebruary 1979 lasue of Vogue. I have read your story. I don't think it's bad, but you must stop uaing too many ad ectives. Study Hening way particularly his early work and learn how to write ahort senteneen ond how to eachew all those belastly adjectives Surely it is better to nay"She wan a tall Eirl with bonom" than"She was a tall ei ri with a shapely, proalnent bonom", or Bone such rubbiah. The first one saya it all Youre sincerely, Roald Dahl