Callum McSorley's Blog, page 23
June 29, 2016
Read ‘Year of the Money Lender’ on Freedom Fiction
My short story Year of the Money Lender was published by Freedom Fiction in April. You can read it here.
Year of the Money Lender
Feng watched the rain from the window. It tinkled on the bells of the shrines and temples and ran off the eaves of curved rooftops in sheets like waterfalls. It danced on the Sumida which hurried by the palace, filling up the moat that surrounded the Imperial Garden. Feng detested the rain. It gave him a cold ache between the scales.
He stared out across Edo, the d...
Read ‘Post Punk’ on GFT Press
My short story Post Punk was published by GFT Press back in January. GFT are a great nonprofit lit journal based in the US, where any money made is sent to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the American Foundation for Suicide prevention. You can read ‘Post Punk’ here.
Post Punk
When Jess died, she left me three things: a Joy Division record, a Japanese Pokémon card, and a detailed suicide note.
The record was her way of joking. I c...
