Author Archives for Lesley Krueger

The Hockey Stalker: A Short Story

April 10, 2013

A small gift: a short story that appears in my 2021 collection, The Necessary Havoc of Love. He was standing outside the arena as they pulled up, a little man with bad hair. “That’s him,” Janis Trevor said, pointing out the car window. “I phoned Dad. He says legally they can bar him from coming […]

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Story Editing Tip

March 20, 2013

During rewrites, go through your script and make sure at least one thing changes in every scene, and that it feeds your story. Maybe a bomb explodes, shredding expectations. Maybe one character loses power over another, whether she’s a mother confronting her daughter or a sergeant bellowing at a recruit. An image we’ve seen before […]

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