The Illustrated From Here

I had so much fun illustrating the beginning of my story "Neighbors" (from my forthcoming collection, From Here) over at Book Puke:

"Never Forever: Where Does the Story End?" at HTMLGiant

I wrote about when to know how to end it over at HTMLGiant:

In college I was introduced to Raymond Carver, not in a class, but by a roommate who loved the short story "Fat." When I first read it, I was confused; a waitress recounts to her fellow co-workers her revulsion and confusion over a recent, extremely obese diner, a man who eats more than she has ever witnessed anyone eat and refers to himself as “we.” The story mysteriously ends with the waitress, speaking to the reader: "It is August. My life is going to change. I can feel it."

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