Poets go to bed earliest, followed by short story writers, then novelists. The habits of playwrights are unknown.
– Ann Beattie
Tag: short story
Quotable 154
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Fiction: Papal Bull
Not recently, Carmine, a white and tan cat, woke especially early and spent the morning in prayer, punctuated by the occasional quick glance at where his tail should have been.
When he felt as prepared for his journey as any cat has ever felt, he slipped away from the barnyard and wandered down the dirt road toward the port.