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đŸ„€On Darkness, Fables and Heartbreak, with Vanessa OnwuemeziđŸ„€

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Writing Short Stories - Is There a Back Story?

I'd like to talk a little bit about your characters. One of the things i think is kind of quite disconcerting as a reader is, for the most part, the complete lack of back story were given. And in addition, you sometimes don't name your character. And so i'm really curious about that as a sort of, a, as an artistic choice, and also from a writing perspective. Are the kind of back stories, the lives of the characters, fleshed out for you? Do they, in some sense, remain equally mysterious to you as as they do to the readers?

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