I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.