My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Raymond CarverBut he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything elseโthe cold and where he'd go in itโwas outside, for a while anyway.
Raymond CarverThis is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
Raymond Carver