Frame It Up: Experiments in Short Story Structure

 By Shelley BurbankCliff overhanging Gun Beach, Tumon Bay, GuamI drafted a short story last summer when I was in Maine. I wanted to write a short crime narrative about my female private investigator character, Olivia Lively. Because I was visiting at a home with no internet, I drafted the story by hand on yellow paper. The solstice inspired me to use June's full moon as part of the setting,