"Splintered" by Richard Thomas is live at PANK
My story "Splintered" is now up in the March issue of PANK. Thrilled to be here, alongside a ton of talented people, they do such awesome work at PANK, can't even begin to list the authors that came before me here that I just love.
This is my attempt at a pick your own ending, or choose your own path adventure story. I've been meaning to write one of these for awhile. Of course, it has my usual neo-noir, demented, sexual stamp on it. That's what makes it an "adult" story and not one for the kiddies. Hope you dig it.
http://www.pankmagazine.com/splintered/
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I adore this short. It's my favouite Thomas.
thanks wicked and matthew!
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Nice, nice. I'm working on a couple, my reference point being Margaret Atwood's 'Happy Endings'. I love shorts that are playful in form.
#I have given you the fire of my youth/And the triumph o're my enemies#
thanks mavtj, appreciate it - not sure if i've read that one by atwood, i've been meaning to read more, do you have a link to that or maybe a quick synopsis? i also am shopping a story called "Ten Steps" that breaks the story into the ten steps it takes to become a serial killer, and another one is entered in a contest that is called "Twenty Reasons to Stay and One to Leave" that opens each of the twenty statements with "Because..."
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http://users.ipfw.edu/ruflethe/endings.htm
No synopsis necessary, methinks.
Love, love shorts that have quirky paradigms to structure the narrative i place of straight up prose. Really gives them an instant energy and originality, always on the look-out for new pieces to digest. One of the shorts ensembles I'm working on is a collection of slip-stream metanarratives.
#I have given you the fire of my youth/And the triumph o're my enemies#
Thanks for that.
If you want another weird format, try the choose your own in the Kevin Brockmeier story
"The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device: A Choose Your Own Adventure Story."
It's in his collection The View From the Seventh Layer
http://www.amazon.com/View-Seventh-Layer-Kevin-Brockmeier/dp/0375425306
might be a good collection for you in general
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Thanks I'll check that out.
Funnily enough I was using the Rube Goldberg device as a basis for a short for my MA. It's a time-consuming thing to get right in planning alone.
#I have given you the fire of my youth/And the triumph o're my enemies#
I enjoyed this. Fun little story.
I used to love the old Livingston and Jackson fighting fantasies. Used to pinch them from the school library years and years ago. Weird nostalgia kick you brought up with this, haven't seen one of those books for ages.
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