From Turgenev to Tobias Wolff and John Cheever to Alice Munro, many of the best short stories hinge around borders being transgressed
For me, part of the compelling energy of short stories comes from the way they can cross boundaries. More than simply geographic, these boundaries can be crossed in acts of transgression or empathy, in shifts of understanding or emotion and formal innovation.
Sometimes, when a boundary has been breached, it becomes clear that there is no going back. At other times, both characters and reader are placed in an uncanny limbo, where they wrangle with a sense of dislocation, or unreality – maybe exhilarating, maybe alarming.
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