Francisco b icasiano autobiography rangers

            There is a thin line between the short story and the essay which made both of them confusing to distinguish between the other one.

As I have mentioned in my note about Pantoja’s Breaking Barriers, there had been confusion and even mistakes about whether a piece is a short story or an essay. An essayist wouldn’t know how to react if his essay would be regarded as one of the best short stories.

He wouldn’t know if it was a compliment or not.

            Icasiano’s At the Baptismal Font was more like a short story to me than an essay.

Well, perhaps because it belonged to informal essays, that was why.  But the ‘essay’ had a story within it and instead of focusing on the idea within a given story, like some essays