The Short Story Challenge

I’ll let you into a little secret: I struggle with short stories. Really I do.

It’s not that I can’t write them. Jetsam got some of the highest praise (hello, honorable mention, year’s best horror). It’s just that I seem to be so hit and miss with them. I’ve been thinking about this recently and I came to the conclusion that my problem is that I often try to write stories I can cram into 7000 words rather than actual short stories and one is not always the other. In the last few months I’ve w...