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Stacey Levine

The Strangeness of It

E. Shaskan Bumas

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Moira Crone

Surprising in a Convincing Way: First Person Narrators as Characters

Rob Davidson

Four Points on Character in Fiction

Gina Frangello

Shape-Shifters

Joan Frank

Gumby, Frankenstein, Jakob, Rosamund

Laura Furman

An Anecdote about Character

Marianne Gingher

On Character

Elizabeth Harris

On the Development of Character

Michelle Herman

Busy Doing Nothing

Daniel A. Hoyt

The Mark

Laird Hunt

Two Notes on Character

Pamela Johnston

The Basic Thing

Lee Konstantinou

Round or Flat?

Peter LaSalle

What I Know about Character

Clint McCown

Character and Subtext

Lance Olsen

The Metaphysics of the Pronominal Hoax, Or: Thinking Beyond Character

Pedro Ponce

I Dreamed I was Gregor Samsa

Glen Pourciau

Revealing Character

Michael Pritchett

15 Observations about the Modern Tragic Hero, Tragic Endings and How They Work Together

Ernesto Quiñonez

Honor Among Thieves: Craft Lesson on Character Theft

Thaddeus Rutkowski

Piecing Together Personalities

Tim Sandlin

On Killing Your Darlings

Davis Schneiderman

Your Best Friend is Already Dead

R. T. Smith

You Are What You Say: Idiom as Character

Elizabeth Strout

Thoughts on Character

Steve Tomasula

On Flatness

Mary Troy

Some Folks

Anthony Varallo

On Character

Erinn Batykefer

Center of the Maze

Patrick Carrington

Coming into Penn Station

Matthew Cooperman

from Spool

Jim Fisher

Proposition

Rebecca Morgan Frank

Railroad Apartment

Ian Ganassi

A Furious Silence

Richard Garcia

Gacela of Noon

Dennis Hinrichsen

Hick Orpheus with Harmonica and Train

Sarah Kennedy

The Saint

Amy Letter

The Floralia

Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Cape Hatteras

Rachel Richardson

Mississippi

Mary Ann Samyn

There’s No Time Like the Present;
Loud and Clear

Avery Slater

Ono-Shinden

Janet Smith

We Hiked to a Lake Where I Was Unhappy

Allison Smythe

Only Detect

Brian Spears

Sedimentary

Alison Stone

XXI. The World;
X. The Wheel of Fortune

Mark Terrill

Approaching Elmshorn

Cori A. Winrock

from The Suburbium Sonnets

Lily Mabura

A Conversation with Bret Lott