Thoughts on shorts: Daniel Orozco

Every story that I write feels like a kind of experiment. The challenge in crafting a story is how to engage a reader emotionally, intellectually, experientially. I’m always looking for some kind of challenge, some kind of structural or narrative constraint to try and figure out. [...] I mean, the story “Orientation” is a gimmick. [...] But so what? All that matters is that a story, whatever the structure, must be grounded in the humane.

~ Daniel Orozco

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