Readers and writers can dispute the amount of room left to wonder in a short story – and say there simply isn’t enough space.
In a short narrative every sentence must carry weight: be it wound, memory, betrayal, or simply longing. Sometimes an entire lifetime must survives inside a single gesture. This could be something as mundane as a hand reaching for a letter that arrived too late. Like in my short story Kate’s Letter included in the anthology Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope.
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