Danielle Evans: One of my favorite things that short stories do when they're working is move through time in this way that feels really seamless. Like there's some sort of present crisis that you're being directed to that's creating some kind of moment or occasion for the story, but there's also so much history, some nods to the future, and there's just this way that time compresses so you can be in the past, present, future at once. And I think when a story captures that, it feels a lot like being alive feels, and that's when I'm often most in love with short fiction.