Short Stories From Halil Akgün 1

This story is not a story about the birth of a child or the sun’s birth. This is the story of a story’s birth. But for a writer it is like the birth of a child or the sun’s birth. Because for writers the stories are like the birth of children or like the sun’s in his own world. The nine months period for us writers, is sometimes like five minutes, other times like five years.The writer can find inspiration from a simple moment, it develops it and he presents it to his readers. Or he waits for the story to ripen on its own like a fruit in the literature garden. (The Birth)