If you’re delicate with people, if you listen to them just right and give them the space you think they need and are always kind to them, then that’s not closeness, not intimacy. But I can’t help it, I want to be delicate with people. Life is so hard, you know?
Over at American Short Fiction, Callie Collins talks to Sara Majka, author of Cities I’ve Never Lived In, about themes, endings, and movement in her fiction.
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