Francisco b icasiano autobiography meaning

            There is a thin line between the short story and the essay which made both of them confusing to distinguish between the other one.

As I have mentioned in my note about Pantoja&#;s Breaking Barriers, there had been confusion and even mistakes about whether a piece is a short story or an essay. An essayist wouldn&#;t know how to react if his essay would be regarded as one of the best short stories.

He wouldn&#;t know if it was a compliment or not.

            Icasiano&#;s At the Baptismal Font was more like a short story to me than an essay.

Well, perhaps because it belonged to informal essays, that was why.  But the &#;essay&#; had a story within it and instead of focusing on the idea within a given story, like some essays do, it focused on the story