Story #4: 1-3 page implicit plot story.

Story #4: 1-3 page implicit plot story. Read Gabriel García Márquez’s “One of These Days” in handout. Notice how the whole story focuses on one small incident: the mayor has his tooth pulled. However, the dentist’s reluctance to pull his teeth, the mayor’s threat to kill him, the dentist pulling out his own gun, and other moments in the story, such as the mentioning of the 12 dead men for which the mayor should suffer, all suggest that something unusual is going on here. We are in a world of violence, machismo, frontier justice, and something awful has happened offscreen that is merely alluded to in the story. The real plot happens offstage, but the very fact that it is glancingly mentioned without being dramatized actually gives this story drama. Your job is to break several beginning fiction writing rules: tell a story without telling it, suggest a plot without dramatizing it, and somehow or other–how you do this I leave up to you–get away with it!