We celebrate short stories on selected shorts as you know and we've listened to one of your stories the big cat which is fantastic and the theme of the show is home wreckers marriages that can bust and that does happen in the story but before it happens and then again after there's just

to my thinking so much texture to the way these two people are with each other as

well as with Alita's extended family.

So I always try to track for myself even as a reader and a writer where a story comes from,

but it may be sort of like figuring out where a dream comes from.

I'd love to hear about the genesis of it.

I like your take on stories because I feel the same way. I'm not sure where they come from.

Sometimes I can trace back details.

It's set in Minneapolis.

Some of the settings are real,

the restaurant, where they reconnect, the condominiums which I've seen from the outside and I just

imagined and then this relationship you can call their,

and what everything that happens.

Yeah, they're all relationships.

The daughter, of course.

For me, I don't know if you feel this way,

as a fiction writer, you can pull things from life and things that are not from life.

I feel like it's our superpower.

Ah!

To have like a restaurant that you say is real, but a made-up metallergic symphony of snoring. I like to think that you were just really

excited when you came up with that. I was excited by the end, which is violent in a lot of ways, but what's most violent is based on a man's

dream state in which he's surrounded by the noise of women.

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