My novel is dolly-stepping along. I'm at 1500 words and not too far from the end of chapter one. Yay. The journey of a thousand miles begins with realising it's one hell of a long way.
LitHaven.com reviewed "Moving Dad" (http://www.lithaven.com/main/index.php) . Beware of story SPOILERS:
Steven Cavanagh’s “Moving Dad” was another favorite of mine. The main character packs up his car and drives his father to what we first assume to be a nursing home. The reader also assumes that the father has Alzheimer’s, but you quickly realize that instead he is taking him to a resting place for the dead. Corpses inexplicably have started to keep their souls, so now our character is in this alien place filled with the dead, and he must part with a father he’s always admired and loved. Using a magic-realism style, Cavanagh manages to capture a strange sense of grief and remorse, and it transfers through to the reader.
Glad to hear that. I put a lot into that story: my step-grandfather dying the day he was to go into the nursing home, the angst of a close friend as his father went into a home, and of course watching my immortal, indestructible dad getting older and not being able to run the farm anymore. It's the first time I've poured something of myself onto the page.
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You need somewhere on your site to collect your stories so we can read them all at once (rather than trawling through old posts to find links).
Saw your comment on my site about alpacas, that sure is a wierd animal to have as your favourite..good luck making an Alpaca sound ;)
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