A Traver Time-Out

Although some authors manage to make it look easy, writing a good short story is damn hard work. In fact, it's been my personal experience that writing even a bad piece of short fiction is no champagne brunch on the beach. Then, when you impose upon a writer some zany restriction--such as that his or her story must revolve around fly-fishing, for instance--the obstacles become almost insurmountable. I view it as something of a miracle that so many writers over the years have been able to overcome the seeming impossibilities to produce short stories that FR&R has been extremely proud to publish. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.