“Rocket Night”
| Title | “Rocket Night” |
| Year for Search | 2013 |
| Authors | Weinstein, Alexander |
| Secondary Title | Southern Indiana Review |
| Pagination | 33-35 |
| Date Published | Spring 2013 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in which each year the children in a school choose one of their number to be fastened in a rocket and shot into space, the choice being the most unpopular child, and, in the story, the poorest child in the school. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 177-81. |
| Author Note | The author is Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. |
| Full Text | 2013 Weinstein, Alexander. “Rocket Night.” Southern Indiana Review (Spring 2013): 33-35. Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 177-81. Dystopia in which each year the children in a school choose one of their number to be fastened in a rocket and shot into space, the choice being the most unpopular child, and, in the story, the poorest child in the school. The author is Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. |
