The Harvest, Amy Hempel

It’s always nice to know someone is reading the blog, especially when I find out he’s passionate about the short story! Recently, I got an email from Mark, who passed on the name of a short story I might like—Amy Hempel’s “The Harvest.”

He couldn’t have been more right.

As a writer, I’ve always been fascinated by the story behind the story—what inspired this particular piece? I consider each of my fictions to be a slice of my life: it was always inspired by something real. What Read the rest of this entry →