Neil Serven

In the mail: Post Road no. 43, featuring my story “We Don’t Joke About Such Things.” This story has been through a long journey before arriving at this destination. It’s gone through several revisions–the title is one I even used for an older story that looks nothing like this one–and earned honorable mentions in a couple of contests. It’s a story I workshopped a number of years ago at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in a class led by Alix Ohlin, a brilliant and thoughtful group among whom several members have since published novels. Their suggestions were vital in shaping the story to its final form.