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Save this story for later. Your novella “What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?” opens as a boy is floating on his back in a pond. We gradually come to learn that he’s part of a wealthy extended family gathering for the summer at the family’s estate in New Hampshire. When did this character, Chip, first come to you? Photograph by Eli Sinkus My parents live on an old farm in New Hampshire, all apple trees and ponds and turkeys in the fields, though it’s a far humbler version of the estate in the story. A few years ago, my family renovated my parents’ little barn into a house so that we can stay for the summer to escape Florida’s heat. We spend a lot of the day floating in the pond, which is so brown with tannins and rich with newts that it’s a little disconcerting; I always feel afraid I’m going to hurt a newt or two when I dive in. The pond is spring-fed, so always cold, but sometimes the July sun will heat the pond to bathwater-warm for the top foot, and, if you float lon

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