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An 11.59 Publication, Birmingham
Experimental Short Fiction: Publications + Proposals. © Steve Coel / An 11.59 Publication
Hats.
Q: I understand objections to order, but are you questioning authority or society?
A: Sitting a bit on the fence here, I guess I'd rather leave that up to the reader.
Are my objections so clear cut? I'm not sure really.
I don't feel uncomfortable being objectionable to those who should know, and do, better! It's just my idea of being just and fair.
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Writing with your ears. [ Part 2 ]
Writing with your ears [ Part 2 ]
I sat opposite
a very elderly couple.
The gentleman
was recalling
story after story
to a rather
mystified lady.
He told her
about his father,
and his attitude
to work
following WW1.
He was,
I have to say,
a very good
storyteller.
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30 years ago
in Brixton, London
I had a conversation
in a pub,
with a lady
who had been
born in a brothel
in France
during WW1
and was still wearing
her mother's fur coat
that very evening.
40 years ago
I had a drink,
in a pub,
with a father and son.
The father
had been a boy soldier
in the Boer war
in 1900.
As a writer
of micro flash fiction
I am sensing,
ever so slightly,
a shift
in source material!
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Reading Glasses
Stryd Fawr
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2+2 and 2+2
Q: Beginnings, middles endings?
A: Not necessarily. Not for me. Well not all the time.
There you go, a beginning, a middle and an ending!
I know what you're saying. Do you need that comfort zone when you read a short fiction?
No; me too.
Well there you go then.
A good story ends up the way it is, not the way you're told it should.
Steve Coel
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Steve Coel .....creating fictions.....
Steve Coel - Documentary Fiction Photography
Jealous Feet
Like me you might have seen it in the papers some time. It wasn't big news for everyone, although it clearly was for some.
It was all about always being seen in 'interesting' shoes and why this was important. Of course this in itself wasn't news. But it did leak to an outbreak of jealous feet and we know now what that ends up leading too!
So, in keeping up with modern practices, to be seen as fair and just, a lot of people started to become followers of fashion and those with jealous feet were shunted outside with the smokers.
Steve Coel
100 months...
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Steve Coel / Two Voices
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Steve Coel / Two Voices
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Steve Coel / Two Voices
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Steve Coel / Two Voices
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Weekend Pass
Here it is.
Weekend Pass [ Extracts].
Slipping along the road overlooking the small town, you see greeting you in the distance, hills and mountains and a grey dismal sky disgusted with seeping sighs.
Slipping into stockings through glass windows, in dim lit bars drinking whiskey and beer at a dockyard jetty, we watch a boat heading south for the pole and adventure.
Dragging battered shoes across a beach of sand and rock we walk around the the camp surrounded by rusting wire and guarded by uniforms.
Inside cellars of music and cheap meat, middle aged women and American sailors careen and preen and scream like angels of delight.
Jingling against glory bars the sea beats against broken yards, bodies grasp and slide quietly, quickly, desperately into nightclub memories and daytime stories.
Fairground rides in broken jeans and girls crying out in astonishment while eating dripping candy laced with smirks.
Back Yard
c. Steve Coel / Two Voices
Against hard bodies young children glare at old timers who click tongues and smoke tipless cigarettes.
From aging busses old ladies crow and clutter promenades.
We share a coffee shop delight and sample evil greasy dishes of potato and meat with the rain smashing on glass and old men.
From dark valleys and misty hills visitors flock to the sea spending a weeks money on hats, drinks and girls.
With final cries you leave behind debris that play in the wind and settle in dusty doorways.
In alleys lovers bid farewell and young children hide.
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Damn right I got the blues...
Damn right I got the blues
We Never Close
Steve Coel
True story.
An uncle of mine was resident in London.
Went out with his girlfriend
to listen to music
and have fun.
to listen to music
and have fun.
First venue too loud, crowds, no good.
Stayed 20 minutes.
Second venue, 200 yards away.
Too loud, crowds.
Too loud, crowds.
Stayed 20 minutes.
Third venue, 200 yards away.
Crowds, mellow atmosphere.
Went in.
Stayed all night, changed life.
Went in.
Stayed all night, changed life.
1st venue - Rolling Stones
2nd venue - Yardbirds
3rd Venue - Sonny Terry and Brownie Maghee.
You know each venue probably
changed his life in some way.
It certainly left him with a great story.
changed his life in some way.
It certainly left him with a great story.
I'd love to do a similar 1/2 mile walk today.
But what would be the chances
of having a similar life experience like that?
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of having a similar life experience like that?
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Documentary Fiction Photgraphy
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