User blog comment:Grizzly Bear/Writing In Third Person!/@comment-13970942-20140602093356/@comment-4832646-20140606044743

Of Mice and Men. I liked that one. The ending was sad as hell, though.

Third person past tense is common, and most sensible. Present and future tenses just make things feel awkward, in general. There are a few good stories written like that, though.