Not Quite Novellas II: A Celebration of Short Stories

“A second volume in Edward Squires’ celebration of the short story. I share his passion.”
- Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post

Writing in The New Yorker, Ian McEwan maintains that a novella should be “long enough for a reader to inhabit a world or a consciousness and be kept there, short enough to be read in a sitting or two and for the whole structure to be held in mind at first encounter.” You could say the same thing about a short story. For this new collection, bibliophile Edward Squires reached out to ten of his writer friends, asking for a piece or fiction, but did not specify a length. Just tell the story, he said. Here’s what he got.
heart, always well told.

Edward Squires studied short story writing at a noted southern university and has worked as a fiction editor before turning to filmmaking. He draws a parallel between short stories and films, both aimed at telling stories in a finite amount of time. Married, he has one son and a houseful of animals.