"Leave a Few Holes in the Plot"?

[Benjamin Sobieck]

Fellow CrimeSpacer B.R. Stateham has the guest post today on my blog. He's talking about short stories, and he's got 4 bits of advice. Of most interest to me was his insistence that you "leave a few holes in the plot."

 

I don't think he means to work in inconsistencies. Rather, leave some of the story to the reader's imagination. Do you agree?

 

You can read all of B.R.'s post on my blog here: http://tinyurl.com/4xrd6tb