This was quite interesting. Personally, I think all writers should have to do slush pile reading as part of their writerly apprenticeships.

Thing about Chekov's Gun as a literary trope set in stone is that it seems to stand in direct opposition to Tom Wolf's "new journalism" sentiments on the use of status detail.

I think foreshadowing may be more important in a short story -- by definition compact -- than it is in a novel.