The short story is a liminal zone. It is a space of thresholds, transitions, hauntings, ordeals, and transgressions.
Story Maxims #4
Story Maxims #3
The writer/reader must fall under the spell of the story. The story is a heightened period of enchantment, during which the writer/reader dwells in multiple places, realities, and time periods.
Story Maxims #2
To resolve a story is to imagine our own deaths. The ending must possess a revelatory insight unavailable in everyday life.
Story Maxims #1
All short fictions are apocalyptic in impulse. They strive towards their own annihilation which arrives only at the point of revelation. When revelation is achieved the story must fall silent.