Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

I write short stories. I write every day.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.