I’m going wildly out of character these days, reading short stories left and right it seems… Actually, not left and right – left to right, which is how we read here in the western world (teehee) – it just seems that way because I’ve had short stories on the brain lately. I’ve treated short stories like the red-headed step-child for many years – and have even given them grief here on the blog. I really do prefer novels – the longer the better – always have, always will. But as I’ve been trying to actually write one, well, let’s just say that I’ve discovered that there’s a surprising amount of appeal in the whole short story thing…

See, it’s surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly, depending on who you are) difficult to write one hundred or one hundred and fifty thousand words on one theme or topic. Actually, it’s difficult to write that many words period. But it’s especially so on one theme or topic. Especially if you are me, and the proud possessor of a terrifically short attention span when it comes to working… Sigh. I’m not proud of this, believe me, but I am self-aware enough to see it and to know that it is an issue I have to learn to work around. So I’ve been trying to use short-story writing as a work-around.
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