This
year has been a barren barrel for my short fiction due to various
changes in my attitude to short fiction—i.e. a complete lack of
interest and a slavish devotion to longer-form pieces, known as
novellas and novels. Earlier this year, I was included in New Writing Scotland 31, an annual annual of Scots writing and a step forward for
me in terms of being published in more well-known (and local)
anthologies and not esoteric lit mags. The piece printed was the last
in a series of four ‘disquisitions,’ titled ‘A
Disquisition on Inadequacy Among the Salaried Classes’ and is
purchasable at the above link. I also forgot about a little pub from last year,
‘The Third Person,’ pubbed in Ink Monkey Magazine 5, which is an
all right little comedic fou, but the stage play version last year
rocked. Another
story, ‘A Florescence of Gerhards’ was published in Bellow Literary Journal 2.1. All available at those links from the
Devil’s Bum.
