Rick Kleffel:agony Column

"You cannot do this all day long." Sophie Littlefield

"..knit a formal coherence by way of sound and rhythm..."

Scratch Pegasus

"I'm much more interested in the mental miasma..."

"...through the act of writing, she would somehow conjure the reader into being..."

A Tale for the Time Being

'A Tale for the Time Being' by Ruth Ozeki, 'Odds Against Tomorrow' by Nathaniel Rich and 'Pandemonium' by Warren Fahy

"...a lot of my work in the first draft looks like prose..."

"...without intention or recognition, we're playing important roles in the lives of other people..."

Traps

"This is not a how-to book."

"...the great thing about dystopia is that you get to wear down the world ..."

Wool

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

First Books for NPR

"I spent a long time reducing the craziness factor..."

"...there's a psychic wound that couldn't heal..."

"These characters are called beaters..."

"...we've made these strange mirrors...."

Gene Kerrigan, 'Rage' ; Stephen Dobyns, 'The Burn Palace' ; Yoko Ogawa, 'Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales'