Literature For as long as I can remember, I've loved to read: short stories, fiction, nonfiction sometimes, even philosophy if nothing else were available. This term I've been given more reading assignments than I can ever remember having to deal with. This term has been extra special because we studied no less than three types of literature: short stories, poetry, and drama. While I was in high school, a short story was a book with …showed first 75 words of 450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 450 total…go for a double series any day. Whenever I'm given a reading task, I treat it like a job, something to put up with until I'm done. I know differently now. I wonder how much I have missed thinking in such a way. From now on, I know that I will see it differently. Already with new eyes I see short stories and poems differently. Drama, however, will always be viewed as a painful task.