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'I am a woman haunted by her past I am a man who spends his life extricating himself from difficult situations I am a sensuous Parisian courtesan I am a youngster in Nicaragua who dreams of flying like a bird I am a radical New York poet with a long suffering wife...' |
New writing made from synopses found in TV guides, rewritten in the present tense and first person.
The result is an enigmatic collection of stories that seem to offer a multitude of possibilities. 'I' become the protagonist in every mystery, disaster, dilemma, plan, or circumstance described.
Mysteriously, I lose myself in narrative when I locate myself as subject. My identity seems fluid. I am man, I am woman, I am murderer, surgeon, surfer, slut. I am loose and yielding, elastic. I am brittle, empty, like glass.I am the story that happens to me. I am the story that happens to be.
'Seductive. Hilarious. Melancholic.'
Susan Fereday, self-published, 2000