In addition to my podcast extract of 'The Words He Said', there's now a short piece by me on the Lonely Crowd Press website on the composition of the story. As I said when I first placed the story, I felt it was a bit different from the other stories I was writing at the time, which to me were linked by contemporary issues, but, as I say in the piece, it very much echoes some of the overriding themes of my wider work.
In a post in March 2019 I wrote about having a story taken by the The Lonely Crowd, the acclaimed Welsh literary magazine edited by John Lavin. Unforseen circumstances delayed publication of the issue in which it was due to appear, but it came out in December and turns out to be a bumper five-year anniversary issue with lots of wonderful content.
John Lavin is doing a fantastic job of spreading the word about the issue, and he has invited us contributors to write about our pieces and to do readings, all of which can be read and heard on the Lonely Press website. My reading from the beginning of my story, 'The Words He Said' - a story about communication and non-communication, and the long-term consequences of a single pivotal moment between two lovers - can be listened to here.
If you would like to read the rest of the story, and all of the other great content, the magazine is available here.
