Contributor’s Notes
John McNally
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I'm more than happy to write a word or two about my story. Given the pantheon of great writers before me who have added their own contributors' notes, I have to admit that I feel out of my league. I'm a newcomer, a nobody, and whatever I have to say about the origin of my story will pale when placed alongside another writer's comments. That said, I will do my best.
What I don't want to do is pull a Rick Bass. Don't get me wrong. I love the guy's work—he's one of my all-time favorite writers—but do we really need to be taken from the precise second the germ of a story pops into a guy's head all the way up to the day he rides his horse to the First Bank of Montana to cash his Paris Review check? No. I think not.
