Making the Book #001: Sam (Video)

Making the Book is a Web video series where I’ll read and discuss my written work. I’ll look back at how the stories I’ve published came to be and offer advice based on my experience as an adjunct English instructor and a lifelong writer. This week, I’m reading and discussing “Sam,” a short story first published in The Bradford ReView and later collected in Those Little Bastads.

Here’s an excerpt:

Sam hated everybody. Everybody sucked. They were all assholes. He hated each and every person on the face of the planet, including the millions he’d never even met. He hated everyone except for the redheaded girl that sat in front of him in Lit class.

He loved her.

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