Want to find out the connection between my writing process and movie trailers? Or what industry the Siguenza sisters in “Sasha’s Pattern, Sonia’s Edge” were originally going to work in before I changed it to VR? Or what was the very first part of “Desert Locks” I ever wrote? You can find all that and more in my interview with Maggie Slater, in which we talk short story vending machines, COVID-19, and the power of visualizing a table of contents.