The Other (Short Sharp Shocks!)

David Youngquist writes about ‘The Other’: “A lot of writers don’t really know where they get their ideas. I admit most times I don’t either. It’s usually an organic thing where several ideas kind of gel into one storyline. In the case of ‘The Other,’ there actually were things which inspired it: I did used to teach, when Fay and I first married; after that I worked second shift at a local factory for five years. Many nights found me up late grading papers, and then after working a late shift and getting home past midnight, I would often be awake into the wee hours of the morning. I am one of those people who can’t just come home and jump into bed, so I stayed up working on a writing project or something. There were several times, I heard something in my garage, like someone rustling around working on something in there, but when I would go to check on it, the garage would be empty except for Fay’s car. I always wanted to expand on this happening as a story, so ‘The Other’ is my offering to that.”(cover by Adrian Baldwin)

Reviews

News