It’s not that I don’t like sequels–some of them are wonderful, in films and in books. But let’s face it, you have to disturb your characters from wherever you left them at the end of the last piece, and throw trouble at them once more, in a way that fits those characters and their world,…
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My short story “Flight” has just come out in Moss Magazine vol. 8. This wasn’t an easy story to find a home for. It’s set in Canada, not the US, and I’ve found it harder to place stories in US journals that are set in other countries. But it wasn’t just that: this story features…
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I know writers who minimise distractions by using software to restrict their access to the internet, or turn their desks to face a blank wall, or shut themselves away in a room with little but their laptop and a chair. I can’t do that. When I’m thinking things over–who to steer a conversation in a…
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Snow is sifting down, burdening spruces whose branches sag, covering up the tracks that Chase and I have made on our walks. A world new made. And yet, it’s warmer out than it should be—I overdressed to go out—and two thousand miles south and west of us in British Columbia, heavy rain has been was…
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