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      • Stone Mattress is a 2014 short fiction collection by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood describes the pieces in the collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales, rather than from conventional literary realism.
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  2. Sep 24, 2014 · Stone mattress: a fossilized cushion, formed by layer upon layer of blue-green algae building up into a mound or dome. It was this very same blue-green algae that created the oxygen...

  3. Dec 11, 2011 · Stone mattress: a fossilized cushion, formed by layer upon layer of blue-green algae building up into a mound or dome. It was this very same blue-green algae that created the oxygen they...

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    No matter when you first read “Stone Mattress” there will be a report circulating in the media about power, abuse and sexual assault, followed by commentary about all the things women and girls must do to stop men from assaulting women and girls (to say nothing of men invisibly assaulting other men). Here’s today’s example (among others): On the da...

    This is a story about an “unresolved moral situation, or one which is resolved unexpectedly”. Another way of saying this: The plot hinges upon a moral dilemma. Stories with strong moral dilemmastend to be the most satisfying. Here’s the key point about a satisfying moral dilemmas: There’s no good path. Here, doing something and not doing something ...

    The basic plot of “Stone Mattress” may remind you of a well-known story by Roald Dahl. Like Atwood, Dahl also wrote revenge fantasies for adults but, unlike Atwood, Dahl seemed to enjoy revenge for its own sake. He would drum up diegetic reasons for exacting revenge, so that the audience could then enjoy the spectacle of it. The story I’m talking a...

  4. Sep 19, 2014 · Sept. 19, 2014. “Stone Mattress,” Margaret Atwood’s first collection since “Moral Disorder” in 2006, begins with three linked stories about women who have been romantically involved with a...

  5. Oct 24, 2014 · The stories in “Stone Mattress” are sharp and contemporary, intelligent and darkly comic, yet awash in the wisdom of a nearly 75-year-old writer still very much in possession of her A-game.

  6. Dec 5, 2020 · The stone mattress is an ideal representation and symbolic of of Verna’s layers and layers of life experiences that, as far as we know, have culminated in this murder. “Stone mattress: a fossilized cushion, formed by layer upon layer of blue-green algae building up into a mound or dome.”

  7. Stone Mattress is a 2014 short fiction collection by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. [1] . Atwood describes the pieces in the collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales, rather than from conventional literary realism. [1] Contents.

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