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When My First Book Was Rejected

August 21, 2023

book, experiencing, fiction, society, writing

Recently, searching through boxes containing ancient paperwork, I found the manuscript of my very first novel! Unsurprisingly, it was also my first book to be rejected.

Though this was ages ago – we’re talking late 90s – I still remember plenty of things about that experience. Perhaps some factual details are a bit different (memory is a tricky thing when it comes to that), but I certainly remember the “how it felt” part very well. In any case, I certainly don’t intend to read such a super-cringe old thing.

So join me in this hilarious trip of recollection, where the road to literary hell was paved with good intentions, and let’s make fun of my naïveté!

donkey; book rejected — “What do you mean, ‘book rejected?’ There must be some mistake!”

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“A Summer Evening in Another World” (Short Story)

August 14, 2023

Fiction

fiction, short story, writing

If you are are reading this short story on or around the day it went live (and you live in the northern hemisphere), you are reading it on a summer day – and maybe evening. Quite by default, you are reading it “in another world”, because each one of us constructs their very own individual universe in terms of perception: You are the center of the world because that is the only way you can experience whatever “out there” reality that exists.

Fancy linguistic and conceptual wizardry aside, this is a short story I wrote in a sunny afternoon in April. As it often happens in art (certainly in my art), it contains plenty of references to experiences and things uniquely meaningful to me but which are entirely opaque to you. It’s “another world”, but one you can perhaps still see forming tangents with your own.

As it should also be fairly obvious, considering the title of this story, it’s part of my eponymous flash fiction collection, A Summer Evening in Another World.

Most of my fiction is available as an immediate free download – simply visit the Fiction page on the main site. And remember, you can also just email me and ask for a free, no-strings-attached (e.g. review etc.) digital copy of any of my books.

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A Summer Evening in Another World – Flash Fiction Stories

June 12, 2023

Fiction

creativity, imagination, literary fiction, literature, short story

A Summer Evening in Another World is a collection of flash fiction stories I wrote in the span of two weeks some time ago. Flash fiction refers to stories that are shorter than short stories. Some stories might be as short as a single sentence, though on average, stories in A Summer Evening in Another World are about 500-600 words each.

In a way, with this collection I took much of what Tell Me, Mariner was about and overcharged it. Part metaphorical, part magical-realism, part Kafkaesque, the stories in this collection refer to experiencing, to society, to our individual (and collective!) place in the world.

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