My latest short story, Butterfly, can be found in the summer issue of Gold Dust magazine.
Butterfly is about a man who ends up with two lives. Do we all life many lives (sometimes in the course of a single day) or are we stuck with just one which we cannot escape?
This is another of my 5-minute stories about our similarities to certain animals. My collection of creatures keeps growing and now includes Whales, Fleas and Spiders (click on the links to read those stories too). I may have to find a zoo to keep them all in.
There are some great short stories, as well as reviews, flash fiction, interviews and poems in the Summer 2013 issue of Gold Dust magazine. It is available as a print version that you can buy here, or as a free download. Alternatively, you can read it for free on the Gold Dust website (my story, in case you’re wondering, can be found on Page 16).
This short story asks: How do you measure a life? After all, it’s not always clear where one ‘chapter’ of our lives ends and another begins. For myself, I have always marked the different ‘chapters’ of my life according to the different houses I have lived in and the various cities I have called home. Some people portion out their lives according to the different husbands or wives they have kept at different times (or, more surreptitiously, the mistresses, sweethearts, secret lovers). Others measure them according to different jobs, and the whole catalogue of little failures or successes that attend them. A few of my friends are able date all the major events of their lives using only the lines drawn on kitchen walls to mark the height of growing children.
How do you see your own life when you look back? Is it a set of ‘chapters’ or a flowing narrative than is impossible to separate in different chunks? Do you feel like you’re still the same person you were when you were young, or does that person seem very different to you now? As ever, please do take a look and let me know what you think…
[Image courtesy of Evan Leeson via Creative Commons]
How often do you travel through time?
Be honest. Time-travel can be something of a guilty pleasure. Guilty because so many well-meaning slogans tell us to ‘live in the present’ and to ‘seize the moment’, and yet there is something about slipping backwards and forwards in time that most of us cannot resist. We take comfort in childhood memories, in reliving perfect […]