Two hundred tiny stories
Remember when Nike Sulway’s novel Rupetta was shortlisted alongside ‘A wrong turn at the Office of Unmade Lists’ for the Aurealis award? And remember how I read it and thought it was just bloody gorgeous? Yeah you do.
A nice place to wait a thousand years.
Anyway, I’m so utterly delighted all of that happened because it means I’ve been ‘following Nike’s career’ (aka stalking her online) ever since. One of the sterling results has been reading the tiny stories she’s been publishing this year on her blog, Perilous Adventures. She’s committed to writing a 200-word story every day for 200 days: she’s up to number 23. These stories are incredible, and I find it hard to understand how someone can pull such poetic beauty out of their guts and express it so compactly every single day.
Anyway, today I tried to help by writing a story for her: it’s called At the Limbo Cafe. It possesses none of the trademark Sulway gorgeousness, but is a bit funny and a little bleak. So visit Nike’s blog, read her stories, and have a peek at mine while you’re there. Then buy Rupetta.
