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“The words were inside of me, and I was being called to compose a story.”
“My writing was stalled by perfectionism; my holographic pages looked more like heavily redacted government documents than stories.”
“Until that scene, he’d been a nonentity in the story, mostly offstage and uninvolved.”
“Suddenly, here he was.”
“Janet gave fully to Laird, but that didn’t require a sacrifice on her part.”
“It wasn’t the literature that had formed my ideas of what fiction could be.”
“It still needed an ending.”
“I wish there were more words for this choice than “sacrifice,” which connotes deprivation.”
“During Ian’s illness, I’d stopped going out and staying up all night; it wasn’t fun without him.”
“Her award-winning story “In the Gloaming” was made into two films.”
“The protagonist who makes a sacrifice for the sake of another receives an unforeseeable benefit on the other side.”
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“Copyright © 2026 by Alice Elliott Dark Alice Elliott Dark craft criticism In the Gloaming reissue Scribner short stories Writing process Alice Elliott Dark Alice Elliott Dark is the author of Think of England and two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist.”
“I began the story seeing an image of the young man named Laird sitting up in bed, his sister Anne—it occurred to me that she was a lawyer—in a chair by his side.”
“When a character stops acting on behalf of himself and instead makes a choice to act on behalf of the welfare of another person, the story suddenly evokes a sheaf of nobler feelings.”
“The story, my partner in this venture, wouldn’t let me finish it without offering him a meaningful role.”