About The Inquisition

About The Inquisition

About The Inquisition A number of people have asked me about this story, a contemporary short story about cancer. Why did I write it as a hybrid of narrative prose and play script, and why did I choose such grim material, namely cancer and the Stalinist terror? The...
Where do the stories come from?

Where do the stories come from?

  Where do the stories come from? Where do my ideas for contemporary short stories come from? I sometimes think that I’m a bit like a magpie—maybe even a thieving magpie—in that I’m attracted to things that catch my eye (or my ear). Many of the stories in both...