The waiting was harder than the writing. I worried about all kinds of things, the sheer number of unknowns were high-calorie food for my anxiety demons. What if I discovered I didn’t like writing collaboratively? What if the story preceding mine had no character that I wanted to work with? What if the editors hated [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Chinese Whisperings project was well under way by the time I got involved, so I’ve felt like I was someone pulled out of the audience half way through the second act, when the director realised that an actor hadn’t shown up to the theatre. I don’t know what made the person originally slated to [...]
The room was large, decorated in the calm banality of hotel beige. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d been in a bedroom, but an old part of his mind began silently criticising the lack of a view, and the fact that one of the dressing table legs was chipped. He saw a door through [...]
David woke on something so soft, a childish part of him wondered if he had died, and was floating to heaven on a cloud. When he opened his eyes, he saw a light above him, set into an ornate ceiling rose. It was the first clue he hadn’t died. The second was he hurt all [...]
“Dad?” He didn’t respond at first, thinking the voice was only an echo from his past. In these last few months, his mind had been a cruel joker, giving strangers his son’s face as he shuffled through the streets. On one day, no less than twenty of the university town’s students had been his son [...]
We recognise it is a terrible tease to offer up a meagre 750 words from each story. For the majority of our writers, this is their first publishing adventure, though certainly not their first venture into the wonderful yet terrible world of fiction writing. Many of the writers here have considerable back-catalogues of stories, seen [...]
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The Red Book, Audio Trailer
