This is another draft of the rough short I posted under ‘Riding the hell out of Kelso’. It was a preliminary working title at the time, and as seen below on page 1, I am still unsure of a title when typing-up.
Tag: short story
Typecasting: Riding the hell out of Kelso
I’m venturing into realism. This is a rough first draft of a story I banged out. The short version: it’s about a young man dealing with the loss of his grandfather, and more besides. It needs paring down, sharpening, but its a lump of clay I’m happy to continue sculpting. A revision by friends won’t be resisted either. I’ll post a typecast of draft II sometime in the future.
Typecasting: The Kind King Light of Mind
Uploading images of type-written text is one way to road-test material without contravening the provisos of many literary journals. That being: not to send in work that has been otherwise ‘published’. Included in that definition is the publishing accomplished on personal blogs.
The draft of a story below ‘The Kind King Light of Mind’, is just that, a draft. Every time I retype it, the story becomes a little different. Even the definitive and uncompromising medium of the typewriter didn’t strengthen my resolve to creating a version of this little surreal didactic that I’d be happy to set in stone. There is something about the ending, needs fleshing out.
In future I’ll use double spacing.
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Fionn Wills 