It’s not often, really, that a corpse becomes the most memorable, moving character in a story about the living, but this is exactly what happens in the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez’s delightful, deceptively simple short story, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.” In some ways, this isn’t surprising the line between life and death is often thin, diaphanous, in García Márquez’s fiction, where ghosts of the dead haunt characters, a long-sunk ship returns to life, and living characters are frequently likened to cadavers. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel García Márquez Why not read along with us? Today, we recommend: According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day of the month.
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