Short Stories talk

Ok, so this post is pretty confusing but, i've learned that short stories are a lot harder than i always thought.  The story that really sticks out of my mind is AP because it kind of reminds me of real life things, despite the time it was written.  I mean think about it, the main character Sammy was incredibly judgmental just like a lot of people now.  We all judge each other regardless of our real feelings about the person we are judging.  It's pretty disgusting when you hear it from someone huh? But for example Sammy really liked the blonde girl he referred to as "Queenie" yet he judged her even though at the same time he was incredibly attracted to her. But anyway, i forgot the POV we were looking for in our stories so i'm gonna go off on a limb and say that AP was about Character personality... I'm probably wrong but what i found so interesting was Sammy and his point of view.  Now, side tracking from that because i don't want to "praise" AP despite it was the best story in my humble opinion.  Another story that sticks out in my mind is A old man with enormous wings, i found it so interesting because it was just so bizarre that it sticks out fondly and not in the good way.  Let me elaborate, AOMEW was really weird but it had a very cool setting and plot my problem however was that it didn't make you want to connect with the characters or want to read the story as a whole.  This is mainly because there is no character development and that makes everything boring, what makes a story interesting is the protagonist that the reader/audience (depending if its a movie or book.) can connect to. In that story there isn't a protagonist therefore no reason to care at all.  I'm probably missing the point of this post but this post is pretty difficult because, i have no clue what i'm supposed to be writing about because all these stories bored me in their own way making this a hard thing to do because if there is no real interest and i'm only doing it to "learn about short stories or because i have to." I feel uninterested as a reader and that isn't fun, you all know being forced to read something boring isn't fun.


Anyway heres my reading log for the week of 9/23/13- 9/30/13:


A very old man with Enormous wings: 35 minutes 4 pages (plus annotating creating length)

Dry September 55 minutes 12 pages (also annotating)