A Short Review of The West Side Story

One of the things that made me most moved was that the characters thought they had a good life. I saw the opposite. Success, success through career, education, goals, love, or at least we think like this. These gangs exist only in each other without gang support. And these boys / characters do not exist as individuals. They laughed at former gang member Tony and asked me to leave the gang to build a future for them.

Crea Vei Watkins was born in Death Valley in 1984 and grew up in a desert in Nevada. Her stories and essays are on a new story from Granta, Paris Review, One Story, Plowshare, Grimmer Train, Best of the West: Missouri. She received William Ralston Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference and a presidential scholarship from Ohio State University where she won MFA. Claire graduated from Reno University in Nevada and is an associate professor of creative writing at Bucknell University. The short novel "Fighting Spirits" she gathered is published in Riverhead Books.

Many literary circles have great needs for short stories. New Yorkers, Atlantic, Antioch Review - All these respected and widely read publications are accepted in short stories, and they are not unique. There are over 50 top literary magazines that actively accept writers' short stories.

For many writers, short stories may be in the world of publication or expressed by literary representatives. Although the collection of short stories is unlikely to become a major business hot spot, it is useful for acquiring published maps, obtaining reviews, and integrating as "a valued writer". A collection of short stories began my writing career 16 years ago and shaped my first novel quickly. To shorten the long story: I published several stories in literary journals and then submitted them as a collection of annual conferences. The series was subsequently published by University Press. After the book was published, the literary scouts of the publisher saw it at Burns and Noble and contacted me to ask if I have a novel.