The Short and Sweet, Equals Balance Raymond Carver wrote a story called “Mine” of which he later revised and entitled it “Little Things” on pages 324-325. The revisions of the original story was minor, but in some ways affective and in other not so affective, that is, they both have a short and sweet element that balances the scorecard of each. The very beginning of the revision “Little Things” is an improvement to “Mine” because the words have a sense of action and helps to develop a more interesting word picture. “Mine” say’s “the sun had come out and the snow melted into dirty water”, boring; “Little Things say’s “weather turned and the snow was melting” (Barnet, 2014), this can be seen by the mind. The last sentence of the “Mine”