![]() ![]() We – that is The Standard, our friends at Warby Parker, who know a thing about summer reading, The Paris Review, PEN, and author Hettie Jones – want you to capture this last hurrah of heat for a chance to win prizes. As Plath put it, ".the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. ![]() back to school commercials (think JC Penny). ![]() Write us a short story, no more than a 1,000 words inspired by these Dog Days, these days of affairs (think Gatsby's blue gardens), of tragic love (think Romeo & Juliet), of erotic nights (Think Atonement), of hot hotels (think E.B. In these final weeks of summer, when the days are long, the sun is fat, and idleness blooms in the withering heat, we propose a challenge, something to do with those hot, restless hours. ![]()
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