So I wrote this fantasy short story last year called The God’s Eye. I basically scrawled it in a notebook while riding the train to and from work. I don’t really consider myself to be a short story writer, so when it was finished, I let it kick around for a few months while I worked on other writing projects.
January 2011 rolled around and I thought, “Hey, why not enter it into that Writers’ Journal fiction contest?” My other fantasy short story, The Unclean, had placed third in the same contest the year before, so it seemed like a good idea.