The Shingle Bar Sea Monster and Other Stories
Laura Solomon
Proverse Hong Kong
ISBN 9789888167357
Rising to the Surface
Latika Vasil
Steele Roberts
ISBN 9781927242124
Blood and Koka Kola
Christodoulos E G Moisa
One Eyed Press
ISBN 9781483911298
Each short story I love is distinguished by a different, glowing, coherent consciousness. To achieve that, a vital, even chaotic impulse towards life must propel the first writing. Yet the chaos can only be transmuted into that ardent consciousness by a disciplined awareness of language, cadence, characterisation, structure and so on. And the stories’ originating ideas must be pushed far enough to satisfy.
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