Mud Season Review
“Galaxies” is simultaneously playful, gravely serious, and, overall, magical. What does magic mean to you? Most of my stories fall into the realist bucket, but “Galaxies” went strange from the start. As in the story, one day a galaxy appeared on my ceiling. It was just a reflection of something on my desk, but I […]
“Dove” is infused with layers of family dynamics. What does family mean to you? This is a big question, and one I’ve had reason to meditate on at great length in my life. I’ve long since deconstructed the Disney version of family and tend to see it now as a pod of strangers we’re cast […]
In Buying a Gun, the narrator says, “I thought about the gun. It contained stories from the past. Before me, a stranger had held it, hidden it, used it. It contained stories to come because it had no memory, no trauma, no preference for the future or the past.” What is memory and past for […]