I Read Stories: Rocks by Tyler Plofker

 

Rocks by Tyler Plofker in Roi Fainéant

Our narrator has been stacking rocks, and their friend Jack’s been knocking them down. They talk to their English teacher about this, saying that it has meaning; that people do bad things but taking revenge or punching them doesn’t stack the rocks back up.

The teacher explains that real life doesn’t work that way. A story has meaning, a creator, intentionality. But our narrator disagrees, explaining the meaning of this encounter. One that reveals the teacher’s secrets.

Read This: As literary analysis merges with the story itself
Don’t Read This: A pile of rocks is just a pile of rocks