I am very pleased to say that I have a story in the new issue of Fractured West, the flash fiction journal edited by Kirsty Logan and Helen Sedgwick. They’ve started to theme the issues now, since issue 2, unintentionally, as they noticed that certain topics and ideas seemed to dominate submissions or maybe their own minds, and the two things come together to create the issue. The theme for issue 3 is The Pull of Distance, with each story, in their own way, exploring detachment, intimacy, touch, closeness and the difficulties of all those things.

My own story, I suppose falls into that category in a number of ways, exploring a the disintegration of a relationship, but through book titles. There is a distance in the plot as well as in the form, I suppose. Still, it’s quite different to almost every other story I’ve written, and also has a joke in it. I told my dad what it was. He didn’t get it.

Exhibit A is available to read on the website as one of the samples from the issue, but I’d urge you to support this fine journal and buy a copy, or take out a subscription. Every issue is full of great, interesting pieces of writing from a wide range of very fine writers.