I'm sure I can find someone else.

We came to Florida thinking we were going to get a tan. Going to spring training was amazing enough. We got excited when David Ortiz looked our way. This is amazing. It's so great.

We had no idea it would prompt so much attention. It just spiraled into something huge.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.