Author: DL Campbell

  • The Shortest of Short Stories

    The Shortest of Short Stories

    I weep when contemporary culture applies without rebuke the aphorism, “A picture is worth a thousand words” to Literature. I understand the history of the sentiment, but could any number of pictures truly capture the personal journey we each go through when we read Shakespeare’s twenty-six-thousand-word, Romeo and Juliet? Could thirty pictures take even one person Read more

  • Author’s Note

    Author’s Note

    Don’t you just hate novel writers with an agenda? It’s exhausting to drive through a good romp with one hand protectively on the wheel of perspective, one eye on the guardrails of convention. It’s so much more relaxing when everyone stays in their own lane. And so, I have to apologize. As a writer of Read more