How Writing a Short Story Collection is Like Starting a Zoo | Literary Hub

In my own love of stories and long struggle with them, I've always had very short ones in the drawer that seemed to me an escape from what I was "really" doing. They weren't fragments, because they had endings, but they had ended after letting go of the full story and going somewhere else. A few got into my collections. But lately I've realized that the impatience in these stories is their reason for being. It is an impatience with depth, with supplying corroborative details, and thus, with reason. In a poem, reason can and often must be cast off.