Monthly Archive for: ‘September, 2014’

Ball’s Silence Once Begun: A feast to be savoured
By MLJ
on September 21, 2014

Ball’s Silence Once Begun: A feast to be savoured

If you like your fictional feasts seasoned with umami, Silence Once Begun should tempt your tastebuds. Sweet, bitter, sour and salty are standard flavours in western fare. Umami is savoury and hails from the east. It’s hard to get the right balance of flavours in fiction as in food … but in Silence Once Begun

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Red shoes cross the threshold
By MLJ
on September 11, 2014

Red shoes cross the threshold

My author profile of Mark O’Flynn and his fabulous short story collection White Light is published on the international short story forum THRESHOLDS this week. In Mark’s story ‘Red Shoes’, the shoes encapsulate much about Dorothy Hewett’s character. She’d been a Communist, feminist, atheist and sexual libertarian. The shoes are a striking symbol of how

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