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"Secret Goldfish" contains fifteen stories: a man who can't escape the pursuit of lightning all his life, waiting for the last thunder; a pair of Bonnie and Clyde-like men and women broke into the residence of an old man living alone in the middle of the night; a fish wandering around in a water bowl refusing to die A goldfish, witnessing the disintegration of a family... These short stories describing ordinary human plights, through a blend of lyricism and humor, rise to the top in David Means's extraordinary collection of short stories, taking on mythical color and universality. Means inherited the literary tradition of Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, Carver and others, focusing on recording contemporary American society in short stories. The scenes of the story are mostly set in lifeless suburbs. In the areas where turbid rivers pass through, there live a group of marginalized people in society. They are homeless people, unemployed workers, and drug addicts. They live in no fixed place and live in distress. Means uses a seemingly unemotional style to describe the stories that happen to them.