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My Job Is Writing For People To Enjoy And Then Writing About A Broader And A Deeper World.

Susan Straight Finds La's Secret Heart In Between Heaven And Here And With A Sleight Of Hand Only The Masters Have, She Creates An Alley, A Neighborhood, A History That Is As Rich And Tragic As Any Shakespearean Tale.

These Short Stories Are Vast Structures Existing Mostly In The Subconscious Of Our Cultural History. They Will Live With The Reader Long After The Words Have Been Translated Into Ideas And Dreams. That's Because A Good Short Story Crosses The Borders Of Our Nations And Our Prejudices And Our Beliefs. A Good Short Story Asks A Question That Can't Be Answered In Simple Terms. And Even If We Come Up With Some Understanding, Years Later, While Glancing Out Of A Window, The Story Still Has The Potential To Return, To Alter Right There In Our Mind And Change Everything.

Better To Listen To The Gospel Than To A Mortal Leader.

... We Must Remember That There's More Than One Story And Plot In Every Novel. There Are At Least As Many Stories As There Are Main Characters, And Each Of These Stories Has To Have Multiple Plots To Keep It Going - Blood And Bone, Nerve And Tissue, Forgotten Longing And Unknown Events.