MicroFlashFiction - Q+A, August 2024

Steve Coel

Q: Why do you publish online?

A: Well...I think my experimental approach to writing is suited to this medium. Although, to be fair, the initial drive to do this also coincided with my gradual withdrawal from festivals, recording and live performance. 

*I have occasionally published some limited edition MicroFlashFiction pamphlets/chapbooks/catalogues [when requested]. I've included them in Documentary Fiction Photography Folio Boxes which I make to order about four or five times a year.

But yes, online MicroFlashFiction and Experimental Narratives is the medium I have been involved with for the last 17 years.

Q: How have you previously responded to publisher/agent requests?

A: To genuine requests? Well...I'm not reclusive in the sense that I feel disconnected in some way from a mainstream...just take a look at some of the fantastic online music making, online art galleries, on line literature events and so on. There's a lot going on and a lot of us doing this...by choice. 

Writing Review: Extract - MicroFlashFiction, Q+A 2024

Evenings Shadow

Evenings Shadow - Steve Coel

Here -

Where...narrow lane adventures are captured in muddy headlight and cry of tortured bird..

Where...broken lives are inherited..

Where...evenings shadow lies distressed on ripped rock and moss border..

Where...isolated youth walk through decades of frosted vision..

Where...small trees blanket fallen brick..

is the place language comes to die.

Half Stolen Buildings, Steve Coel

From The Mercy Path

Steve Coel

Idle Heels

Idle Heels - Steve Coel

Here -

Where...bladed vape chatter tumbles into unlit corridor..

Where...fragmented sour heeled machinery lies idle..

Where...cracked glass memory leans into elbowed temper..

Where...crippled time shelters from hillside churched solitude..

Where...rusty thimble alcoholics drink cold cartons of charity coffee..

is the place language comes to die.

Half Stolen Buildings, Steve Coel

From The Mercy Path

Steve Coel

Daytime Sleeping

Daytime Sleeping - Steve Coel

Here - 

Where...shielded discount aisles are glued together with spaced smile and free news..

Where...stickered metal bollards herd cheap early morning training shoe..

Where...daytime sleeping space is bagged with tourist litter..

Where...each stuttering step is guided by addiction habit..

Where...whiskered waterway tree hangs on singing electric wire..

is the place language comes to die.

Half Stolen Buildings, Steve Coel

Celf Llawr

Steve Coel