Episode 12: Go

Episode 12: Go. It's Steven J. McDermott coming to you from the Panic Room with the Winter of Different Directions podcast. This week's story is "Go."



"Mike Carter, fueled by anger and self-disgust, pushed up the dusty trail connecting the seventeenth green to the eighteenth tee. The path crested in a thick stand of Hemlock and Cedar and fed onto the tight mown turf. Carter took a deep breath and expelled it as a heavy sigh. He stood his clubs and looked down the fairway, hands on hips. Garth Gibbons and Tommy Oh, his main competition for the Boeing company championship, were only forty yards down the fairway and still walking toward their balls. He could see the next group ahead just on the other side of the lake. Looked like a long wait. That’s fine, he thought. He needed to get himself together. Needed to stop thinking about Susan's job interview down in San Francisco and get his mind back on the golf.. . ."

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In addition to the podcast, I've posted commentary on the story over in the Storyglossia litblog. In a feature I'm calling "The Story Behind the Story" I give you some history on where the story came from, why I wrote it, how it changed in its various revisions, as well as discuss—in true Storyglossia fashion—some of the craft issues I was working on in the story. So check it out after you listen to "Go."

Next up, in episode 13, I'll be reading "Eiderdown."

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