![]() ![]() As I already had the ending in mind, the challenge was to make everything else work. Twenty years later, I resurrected my adolescent fiction when casting about for an idea for my next novel. I no longer have a copy but if memory serves, my little tale was about four pages long and began something like: “Once upon a time, the devil hired a private detective.” It won third place in the McBurney School short story contest. My own first effort, “To Hell in a Handbasket,” took the shape of a parable. It had never occurred to me that a writer could use Satan as a character in fiction. Reading Stephen Vincent Benet’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster” was a revelation. ![]() The notion which eventually became Falling Angel had its genesis as a story I wrote as a sophomore in high school. It may well be that we get our best ideas in youth and spend the rest of our lives attempting to work them out. Click here to purchase Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg ![]()
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