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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.