More news from the Nameless Writing Group although rather belated. Piotr Świetlik’s short story, Curiosity Is A First Step, has been published in the anthology, This Twisted Earth, by Six Minutes To Midnight, a division of Great British Horror. The anthology was launched this year at FantasyCon.
Nice one, Piotr!
Congratulations to B Anne Adriaens, poet, writer and member of the Nameless Writing Group who has made her first publication. The transatlantic webzine and online publisher of dystopian poetry, flash fiction and photography, The Bees Are Dead, has featured Miss B’s poem, CWM. Here’s what they said about it:
“This prosaic poem offers an unrelenting and vivid exposition of abandoned Welsh industry.
Adriaens takes us by the hand and pulls us through a rusting forest of steel; her descriptions confessing a strange base excitement amidst the unheimlich, intertwining context of the natural and mechanical.
From an objective point of view, the scenes within this poem could be that of a suburban love story, but via our narrator’s sensory stream of consciousness, we are treated to a speculative glimpse of the post-apocalyptic…”
And here’s the link to CWM.
Way to go, B!
“Three flies could consume a horse cadaver as rapidly as a lion.” – Carl Linnaeus (1767)
As a writer, it’s this kind of quote that really get me thinking.
(source: The Corpse Project)
Two authors have made goosebumps rise on my flesh. The first was King, while reading the hobbling scene in his novel Misery. Now Bradbury, after finishing The Emissary, a beautiful short story in his collection, The October Country.
Is there any fiction that has moved you in a similar way?
Twisting your character’s arm is twisting your reader’s arm.
Tributes flutter like Small Coppers;
Pulls my gaze like a Red Admiral.
And there like a ghost is the mother
Attending to the roadside grave.
(image:the Vampire Ghost, courtesy of Princess Adriana aka Sparkle)
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The Public Domain Review has just made available Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (1904). That’s my bedtime reading sorted for tonight. Sleep well!
Repetition makes the improbable probable.
Eric Nash 