Peter Short Stories

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    In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
    —Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990)

    Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.
    James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

    Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
    Willa Cather (1876–1947)