By D.E. Kern

I stared at the pulsing cursor on the document titled “Lesson Plan: Narrative Craft in Hemingway, Carver and O’Brien” and drummed the pen on my temple, convinced the best ideas are those beaten out of us, before writing, “Fiction achieves its highest purposes when every individual sentence is a complete plot in and of itself.” 

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D.E. Kern is an author and educator from Bethlehem, PA. His work has appeared in Appalachian Review, Big Muddy, Denver Quarterly, Good River Review and Rio Grande Review among others. He teaches English at Arizona Western College.