#short-stories

"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

"I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know."

"A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film."

"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."