The power of choice

The short stories I’ve been working on lately all have very different characters, settings, and plots, but they have one thing in common: they all deal in some way with making choices.

I’ve noticed over the years that I have a set of common themes that I go back to over and over. One of my major themes is choice. I love putting characters in horrible situations where they have to choose between something that would help them versus something that would not help – and might even hurt – them, b...