Safely Gathered In: An Interview with Sarah Schofield
I have a theory that short stories blossom from a place, feeling, or situation that otherwise eschews easy explanation. A short story gives the complexities space to breathe, stretch out a little and take shape. You know that amazing moment when you are reading a short story and something in it, some emotional truth or reality that had been flying a little out-of-reach under your own radar suddenly takes shape? That, for me, is what a short story can do that other forms cannot do. A novel or play or drama may have too wide a lens, a poem perhaps too narrow. The short story is perfectly placed to capture the evasive emotional truths we all feel nudging below the surface.
Sarah Schofield interviewed by Katy Wimhurst.