My six today comes from The Claddagh Icon, which has been released in English and Italian by Atlantis Books/Lite Editions. You can buy them on Amazon UK (so far) and at the Atlantis site. It’s part of their series of global noir, each one highlighting a different city around the world. The Amazon US…
Category: Six Sentence Sunday
Six Sentence Sunday: White Rabbit
Hey, it’s been a few weeks since I did a Six Sentence Sunday. So while I’m away at Harrogate, here’s a six for you from my current WIP, White Rabbit. From early on in the story where the narrator James Draygo, disgraced detective currently working a psychic scam, talks with his would-be client, brash trophy…
Six Sentence Sunday: The Price
Six Sentence Sunday has rolled around again: if all has gone well, I am in Dundee. After the long day of travel, I suspect I may still be in bed. Let’s hope! In the midst of packing and tying up loose ends, I was also writing (well, when am I not?). One of the things…
Six Sentence Sunday: Con-Eire
Thanks, Linda Parsons. It’s Six Sentence Sunday again: they’re going to be wrapping things up come January. It’s a lot of work to coordinate something that keeps growing in leaps and bounds. I’m grateful for the new readers it brought me. This week I offer a few sentences from my play Con-Eire which gives a…
Six Sentence Sunday: Rook Chant
All right, it’s Sunday again — and Father’s Day! Happy Father’s Day all — so here’s my six. A little change of pace: not fiction, but non-fiction. A little taste from my latest publication, Rook Chant, which offers a compendium of essays, translations and reviews on one of my favourite topics: magic. I write about…
Six Sentence Sunday: Just Waiting
Happy birthday, QoE! 🙂 Another Sunday rolls around, another chance to sample new writers from a wee snippet of prose. Here’s my six and yes it is inspired by a Fall song, so just deal with that, all right. Not everything comes from the words of Mark E. Smith: this week I wrote a story…
Six Sentence Sunday: Biscuits
A little treat for this round of Six Sentence Sunday, the weekly banquet of words to help you sample new writers or savour old favourites. Here’s the beginning of my postcard-sized story “Biscuits” which you can read in its entirety over at Postcard Fiction. “You should have been nicer to me,” Carlotta said as she…
Six Sentence Sunday: Kiss Like a Fist
The lovely Monica Vitti for no reason at all That time again: Six Sentence Sunday. I figured you might like a song-inspired story that isn’t inspired by The Fall. Yes, they do exist. The song is Florence + The Machine’s “Kiss With a Fist” which you’ll notice is not quite the same as the title…
Six Sentence Sunday: Grotesque
Another Sunday has rolled around, giving you the opportunity to spot new writers you might like with the Six Sentence Sunday crew. A great, simple concept that seems to be very effective. My six this week come from a short that’s been under submission for a bit now; I’ve become so good at the “submit…
Six Sentence Sunday: The Claddagh Icon
Another Sunday has rolled around; in the States it’s Mother’s Day, so happy Mother’s Day to my mother and all the other mothers out there. It’s also Six Sentence Sunday, so I’ve selected another story to tease you with. It’s definitely a tease, because while I’ve sent the story off to my publisher in Italy,…
K. A. Laity 