Genesis answers questions, notes abstract concepts such as revenge, tells stories in a listener-aware way, and fills in story gaps using precedents.
The story Gaps in the Hickory, set in Mississippi and New Orleans, is written in a distinct southern vernacular so that the reader cannot elect to escape the accent and its histories.
Akecheta fills in a lot of story gaps in this episode.
If LAPD doesn't fill in shooting story gaps, a jittery public will.
They seem refreshingly normal — no Prada, no furs — and it makes sense that even though Banff does boast a Louis Vuitton shop, it's overshadowed by a two-story Gap next door.
"The clothes over there cost a tenth of my monthly salary," said Cheng, a 22-year-old cellphone salesman, nodding at the multi-story Gap.
Narrative gaps infiltrate your story.
Many narrative gaps keep his story alive as well, leaving room for lively, persistent dispute and imaginings.
"There's a value story at Gap waiting to come out," he added, "and we want to help bring it out".
He doesn't know Esi's name or her story, a gap that only someone who has read the preceding three hundred pages can fully appreciate.
In "A Good Story," the gap is represented by the sweetest bit of postmodernist breaking of the fourth wall, in which you, the author, seem to be lying on the couch and your mother pleads with you to "write a story about something good".
