Short and Sweet?

[image error]Short stories. Love ’em or always left wanting more?

The art of writing a short story is a whole skill set in itself, in my opinion. It’s not just a snippet from a novel, or a single-scene padded out with more words. It needs to stand as a whole story, and that takes a twist to your usual writing craft.

I’ll state my position up front: I love ’em! I love to immerse myself in reading and writing them. It’s the challenge of telling everything without needing paragraphs of setting and backstory...