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The Standard

The Measure of Fine Fiction

Vol. I · No. III · Autumn Issue

The Deliberate Issue

Seven public-domain masterworks and two essays on deliberate practice: what you actually do, and how you summon the strength to keep labouring, when the plans are wreckage and the water is turning in a great circle. Deliberately, and for the first time, no original student fiction.

Published
September 15, 2026
Volume
I · No. III
Extent
112 pages
Pieces
10
Cover of The Standard, Volume I, Number III: The Deliberate Issue

Contents

From the Publisher

  1. From the Publisherby Shawn Coyne, edited by Self-editedp. 4

Seven Masterworks

  1. A Piece of Chalkby G. K. Chesterton, edited by Alfred George Gardinerp. 8
  2. The Solitude of Selfby Elizabeth Cady Stanton, edited by Self-editedp. 12
  3. To Build a Fireby Jack London, edited by Richard Watson Gilderp. 20
  4. The Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Edwin Doak Meadp. 32
  5. Bartleby, the Scrivenerby Herman Melville, edited by Charles Frederick Briggsp. 44
  6. How It Feels to Be Colored Meby Zora Neale Hurston, edited by Devere Allenp. 70
  7. The Devoted Friendby Oscar Wilde, edited by Alfred Trübner Nuttp. 84

Two Essays

  1. Deliberate Practiceby Tim Grahl, edited by Shawn Coynep. 74
  2. Dead Lettersby Shawn Coyne, edited by Tim Grahlp. 94

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