The Weight of a Moment: Stories of Choice, Sin, and Redemption - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

A single choice can redeem a life—or condemn it.

What makes a good person choose badly? What makes a guilty one turn back? And how much moral weight can a single moment bear?

The Weight of a Moment: Stories of Choice, Sin, and Redemption brings together classic and original short fiction in which choices have consequences. The stories are arranged in thematic pairs, contrasting ideas of conscience, temptation, mercy, greed, vengeance, repentance, and self-mastery. These pairings provide no simple answers. Rather, they invite readers to compare choices and consequences, and to explore the narrow distance between redemption and ruin.

Edited by Joe Castoro, the anthology also includes an original story and a new English translation of “The Dead Girl and the Grave-Robber” by Simone Di Benedetto, PhD, as well as a foreword by Fernando Caravaggio, PhD, exploring morality, moral ambiguity, and the choices that give stories their weight.

For readers who believe that great fiction can entertain without surrendering the questions of good and evil, The Weight of a Moment asks a deceptively simple question:

When the moment comes, what will you choose?

Contents

• “The Signal” — Vsevolod M. Garshin
• “The Malefactor” — Anton Chekhov
• “Makes the Whole World Kin” — O. Henry
• “Just Meat” — Jack London
• “A Retrieved Reformation” — O. Henry
• “The Girl with the Silver Eyes” — Dashiell Hammett
• “How Tajima Shumé Was Tormented by a Devil of His Own Creation” — A. B. Mitford
• “The Spider’s Thread” — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• “The Stone-Cutter” — Anonymous
• “To Cast a Shadow” — Joe Castoro
• “God Sees the Truth, But Waits” — Leo Tolstoy
• “Revenge” — Ambrose Bierce
• “The Dead Girl and the Grave-Robber” — newly translated into English by Simone Di Benedetto, PhD
• “Rashōmon” — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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