a short story should show a slice of life at a particular moment - a reader is sucked in and then thrown out again, with head spinning - a bit like a trip with a malfunctioning vortex manipulator.
I had a lot of chats with Sean Williams about this at Clarion South last year over chocolate frogs and herbal tea. How does a short story work on the reader? What should a short story do? I do like fairytale themes as my jumping off point because they're so universal they're what we hear in the cradle."īelow, Slatter and I talk about the short story form, ebooks, and learning patience. "I enjoy writing about really engaging characters - who are terribly flawed but still bring the reader along with them. " fairytales and fear - and sometimes overcoming the odds. And they open moments wide enough to fill whole worlds. The brilliantly drawn images in her first collection will deliver a satisfying shock of recognition to any reader." "Her stories are lyrical and, more important, vividly human. "Angela Slatter writes fiction like an artist turned poet," said Ann VanderMeer, editor-in-chief of Weird Tales. Slatter's stories are startling and exuberant and they will remind you why the short story form is so powerful. They are beautiful inside and out - both the stories that make up the books and the books themselves.
Australian fiction writer Angela Slatter has two beautiful story collections out, Sourdough & Other Stories (Tartarus Press ) and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications).
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