Compression: Melissa Pilakowski
“To me, compression is all about the details, both the ones you put in and the ones you leave out. Every shard of bone left in a story has to be strong enough to hold it up; every sinewy cell that’s omitted is just as meaningful, as the reader must imagine it in his or her own mind. It’s a symbiotic relationship, this genre of short fiction, where both the author and the reader must work to create the full story.” — Melissa Pilakowski
