Stop shitting yourself. Wipe
your arse, dry your eyes, and listen up. The long, excruciatingly painful wait
is well and truly over. My new short story, An Approximate Accumulation,
has been accepted for publication by India’s The Bangalore Review. In
fact, the story is featured on their official website, and can now be read in
full, for free online. Anyone left on tenterhooks by the spoken word
teaser I posted on YouTube a few months back will, therefore, be finally put
out of their misery.
I have a lot of affection
for this particular story. In the way most writers (and here I’m only
speculating, as I don’t really move in such rarefied circles) have a soft spot
for stories which are born out of real-life circumstances, things which
actually happened to them. For there’s something incredibly satisfying about
recording/transforming an everyday occurrence, or even something a little out
of the ordinary, making it into something of worth, something that entertains,
informs, maybe even offends the sense or sensibilities of their readership.
In this case, I happened upon an advert
for a job on freelancer.com that read: WRITE LOVE POEM FOR MY FUTURE WIFE.
At first, I thought it was a joke, a wind-up, that surely someone wouldn’t
stoop so low as to get a hired professional, a stranger, to write romantic
verse for the object of their affections. But when I realised it was an earnest
request, when I actually got the job itself, I found it so sad that somebody
couldn’t find the right words to express how they really, truly felt, something
indicative of the times in which we live, when there are so many new, modern,
incredibly accessible ways to communicate with each other – Snapchat, What’s
App, Skype – yet still we don’t really know how to talk to each other anymore.
But I digress, if only slightly.
The rest of the story is in the story
itself, so if you want to know what happens in the end, I suggest you click on
the link below and find out for yourself:
And if you liked what you
read then why not head over to my amazon page and check out my other published
stories:
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