short stories – The Writers' Room of Boston

In Defense of the Second Person

Lately, I’ve been questioning the use of the second person point of view in fiction. The you pronoun features prominently in my […]

I often read stories that seem very grown-up. A story may seem grown-up to me for any of a number of reasons. […]

Before I started writing fiction I worked as an economics consultant, and before that, I was an electronics engineer. In none of […]

Every now and then I come across a story or novel the content of which makes me uncomfortable. For instance, recently I […]

I am discussing a trio of stories with a professor, and I express concern that, after reading and rereading them as a […]

I’m in the middle of an MFA thesis, in the middle of revising a story, one that I’ve been writing, on and […]