‘Winter Break’ by Hilary Mantel Read it here in about 15 minutes. Thinking about time… Time is important in this story, for several reasons. Firstly, time is used as a structural device. The story is just under 2,000 words long, and spans the duration of a taxi ride from the airport to the couple’s hotel,Continue reading “A short story for winter”
Monthly Archives: Dec 2021
How I wrote it
My short story ‘Vengeance’ is available here – you can watch its performance (from August 2021), or read the story text. I’ve mentioned before that I love the technical elements of language and literature, and I’m going to explain here how I employed a technical focus to write this story. I wrote it during myContinue reading “How I wrote it”
A short story I recently read
‘Girls Have Sharp Teeth’ by Genevieve Mills Read it here in about 20 minutes. Thinking about narrative voice… It’s swiftly evident that our narrator is a teenage girl, and she has a great narrative voice. The vocabulary and semantic fields support the fact this is a teenage voice: the first line mentions a female collectiveContinue reading “A short story I recently read”
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