by Hayley Russell I come from the hush of cold mornings, the kind where silence grows like frost along the edges of windows thin, breakable, waiting for light. My mother’s voice cracked open rooms, a stormfront gathering in the doorframe, yet she’d pause, let the hinges breathe, and show me how to listen for smaller truths: the house exhaling after…
Bestselling author Stephen King discusses the art of writing short stories and short fiction in this video interview, and speaks about how many new writers forgo writing short stories to focus on writing a novel, sometimes before they are ready to navigate “the quagmire of the novel.”