Bird by Bird: Shaping a Story at High Desert Journal

RiddleQ:  When is a hawk a vulture?
A:  When it’s a character gone under the knife of revision in my short story.


I’m happy to announce the current issue of High Desert Journal features a short story of mine, along with work by David Allan Cates , Pam Houston , and many others . Now called “Vulture,” my story once started out in life as “Hawk.” Thanks to the astute suggestions of editor Charles Finn, I rewrote the earlier short-short story about an injured woman having a stare-down cont...