We were driving from Maine to Brooklyn, playing a game called “Find the NPR Station.” It was a Saturday, after all, and even the smaller markets have Weekend Edition. Somewhere in Massachusetts or Connecticut, we found This American Life and stayed tuned in for as long as we could. New York Times book critic James [...]
One of my favorite contemporary writers is a guy from Tennessee named Kevin Wilson. I admire his ability to make the surreal feel so familiar. I saw on his web site that he wrote a tiny story for a web site called “Seventy Two Words,” so I thought I might try and write my own [...]
I had my first radio interview for Name Your Tale Wednesday night. I stayed up past my bedtime to talk to Peter Anthony Holder on Holder Tonight, a talk show in Montreal and Toronto.
The interview lasted a half hour, so I had enough time to wax philosophical about fiction writing. One point I tried to [...]
This is a story that has haunted me for a while. Which is appropriate because it’s about a widower who is haunted by his late wife. Four or five years ago I tried to write it as a play. Basically, it was just one scene being played over and over, showing that the protagonist [...]
A drabble is a tiny story, exactly 100 words long, usually written in the science fiction or fantasy genre. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, UK press Beccon Publications published three Drabble anthologies featuring very short stories by such authors as Isaac Asimov and Neil Gaiman.
I wrote two drabbles for Sam’s Dot Press’s [...]
