Short Stories Are Like Gems, a miniessay in celebration of National Short Story Month, is up in the Atticus Review blog.
Thank you very much to the editors for inviting all contributors to send in miniessays about the short story. Lots of lovely and well-reflected miniessays about the short story on the site.
(Image by David Hodges)
Berit Ellingsen 
A miniessay about short stories. Perfect. 🙂 Love the gemstone metaphor. Your miniessay is a well-polished short story in its own right. Great job. Left you a wee comment under the piece as well.
David Hodges’ photo is gorgeous! Nice pairing with this link to your essay about short story gems.
Thank you so much for the kind comments both here and at the Atticus blog! I appreciate it a lot.
Big hugs to you!
David’s photos are indeed great and always beautiful. I’ve begged him to let me use them for this blog. 🙂
Agreed! His photos are beautiful. So glad he gave you permission to use this one.
I have a few more for later stories. 🙂