"The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch."--R.Z. Sheppard
Each time I write a short story, I find myself thinking "could this translate into a novel one day?" For this reason, I have put these two genres together. In my mind one is only the unrealized possibility of the other, and yet both are equally valuable in their own right.