The Shorter the Better
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Today is that day.
I don’t like to talk about that day, or remember that day, but denying my own connection to that day makes everyone else who wasn’t here on that day but who are connected to me, even more disconnected from that day, and then, the day passes to obscurity.
I wrote something yesterday about that day. You can click here to read “How did 9-11 Sneak up on Me” if you want to memorialize the day in a very very small way (4 minute read).
I’m not posting my photos of that day. The short story that the Oklahoma Review published on the 5th anniversary is long out of print. So that’s it.
In the spirit of brevity, I bring you a mini-interview with me about Flash Fiction by the fabulous Tommy Dean:
You will not believe how much fun I had in this interview until you read it.
Miss anything?
My story “The Heaven - The Earth” is in After Dinner Conversation. As before, you can get the single issue of the magazine from Kindle or for a dollar, you can subscribe to three months of the digital magazine.
Episode 9 of Kaitlin Solimine’s podcast Postpartum Production features yours truly and is available now.
Read: “Be a Genius, but one we can understand” in CounterArts on Medium.
Discover NYC: “Five things you probably don’t know about Governor’s Island”
As I now try to resist the temptation to use a rhetorical question in something I am writing, I just wanted to tell you how inspired to think I was by the content and style of your responses to Tommy Dean's questions. On another point, I have to say that I sometimes find the second-person voice annoying as a reader. On other occasions, however, being really more of a reader than a writer and thus more at the mercy of a writer's magic, I don't even really notice it's being used. I think if you don't like a work in the first place, it can make the experience worse. It comes across then as, above all, presumptuous, but perhaps also tedious....Anyway, I know I will remember several of your answers, and use them as guideposts.
Always great to hear from you, David!