Yes, Virginia, it is OK for writers to play with story form

A version of this story was originally published Dec. 25, 2014. As a boy, my favorite story genre was the cowboy movie. As I got a little older, I left Hopalong Cassidy behind in favor of parodies of cowboy movies, the kind of thing Mad Magazine produced or Mel Brooks perfected in “Blazing…

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