The Mystery Book published by Tar Press
Tar Press publish new short fiction on twitter, in an episodic unleashing over one long Sunday. The editor, Henry Johns, shared my tale, The Mystery Book, in late February 2021, along with illustrative photos I took on the trip that inspired the story.
Henry said of the work, “In this story we’ll follow the narrator on a walk. But there’s a notable disparity between the passing of diegetic time and reading time. We’ll spend about two days following this walk that presumably took the narrator just a few hours.”
Here you can here a pre-publication phone interview Henry and I did, in which he asked me excellent questions and we discussed axes, courses, lemons and warhammer.
You can read the other Tar Press tales in their archive https://www.tarpress.co.uk/, including an excellent one by Tom Jenks. I have been on record saying twitter is something I am partially ashamed to engage with, but you have to try to make that which is corrosive bountiful, even if it’s inherently a failure, so good on Tar Press for doing what they do, and I was happy to be a part of it.
Below is the story, which which tweeted in these various chunks, which I’ve downloaded and pasted for reading ease.
