JUST RELEASED: Headlines From the Starman
I uploaded this one late on Saturday afternoon, and it's a story I think is a little off-beat, even for me. I wrote it to experiment with a different style of storytelling, while playing with the idea that the press tend to exaggerate things or take them out of context, in order to sell more newspapers. And, yes, I wrote it well before the current politics came about. Watching something similar unfold in the real was nowhere near as much fun as imagining what it might look like in a story. Short stories, right? They're where I go to play with new ideas, new structures and new approaches to writing...and I've been writing for a while, now. What's it About? When a mysterious capsule is discovered and an ancient space traveler emerges, the world's press is thrown into frenzy, and when a starship answers the new arrival's call, the media interest intensifies. How Does it Start? For centuries he’d been there and, as far as we knew, he’d slept. The Starman. The Star...
