Stephanie Feldman Said

I usually start with an opening sentence,
and follow it wherever it leads. The story ends when there is nothing left to write. (Right to left?)
No matter. Sometimes it works, other times not. But it is always fun, and often surprising, even to me.
One of my characters one said something like, “We explored galaxies, but never found carbon based-life above the microbe level.” The feeling behind the words completed the thought: if there were life based on a different element, we never recognized it. Earth seemed to be the only planet on which carbon life conditions were perfect. Two microbes were able to conjoin and prosper. Evolution did the rest.
I, the writer of those words, but not the author, have been wondering ever since!

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