“Sojourn” appeared in A City of Han: Stories by expat writers in Seoul and the other cities of South Korea, edited by Sollee Han (Seoul: FWS Publishing, 2020). (The book is available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.) Reviews: “Lastly, in Sojourn, I found an absolute treat to finish the book. It was a fantastical, fitting, frenetic finish to the series. I enjoyed the playfulness as the characters bring themselves both out of their own loneliness and take us triumphantly out of the collection.” — Adam R. Carr   “When I was reading Sojourn, my …

“Winter Wheat” is a story that’s special to me. Like my story “Prodigal” (and several other of my best-received stories) I first drafted it in the summer of 2006, while I was in Seattle for Clarion West. My father had unexpectedly passed away earlier that year—a few days after my last conversation with him, on the phone—and writing the story was part of my working through my feelings about our relationship, as you might imagine if you’ve read it. Not that there’s a one-to-one relationship in any respect: I feel like I’m a lot more like Jim’s dad, and Jim’s …