In the short story “Executing Dexter”, there were many factors. However, the main short story convention that stood was the “emphanic moment” meaning when you have a strong realization at a specific moment and the “central (unresolved) crisis” where you come to the conclusion of the problem but have no real solution. Executing dexter, a short story written by Brian Leung is a gloomy story about two children, Grant and Herschel, who both are unhappy about their lives.  Herschel, the narrator of the story is a young proto-gay boy who recently moved into a new town, being one of the only few black children. Despite feeling left out and different he meets Grant who becomes his best friend.  They both seemed to have troubling lives in very opposite ways.  Herschel had a strict upbringing with his father forcing him to do things he doesn’t care about, such as learning how to play the harp even though he just wanted to be a kid having fun like everyone else.  While Grant had all the freedom to do as he pleased with a pregnant mother who needed to rest and a stepfather he hated, who clearly didn’t care about him leaving him to desire a sense of stability in his life.  They both had troublesome thoughts and would get together to build makeshift babies out of household items and destroy them as a sort of stress reliever.  Together they always had fun but a looming sense of distress always hovered over them both, and as the plot thickened it all began to reveal itself.