Rob Roensch's collection of stories, The Wildflowers of Baltimore, won the International Scott Prize for Short Stories from Salt Publishing and was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He teaches at Oklahoma City University. His website is https://sites.google.com/site/robroensch/
As a fiction writer, and as a reader, I gravitate toward stories from the perspective of a specific, imperfect and alert, outward-and-inward-looking consciousness, a transparent eyeball with legs and, at…