I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Most don't particularly care about your writing or what you're trying to say. Her maternal forebears came to America fifteen years after the Mayflower in 1635. Henry Awards Prize Stories 1999
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