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2014 February Vol. 2
February just got more interesting...
Luis digs deeper into the financial morass... Gina continues her deadly errand... Rebecca breaks up with Max... Ralph charts his mental descent... Charles paints a picture... Jenn wallows in reality TV... Wingy's father gives his version of events... Claire steps outside... the hooker gets laid (again)... Pedersen tries to repair a fence... Edward marries a couple... Sandra goes shopping... the boys celebrate life... a blind woman commemorates Valentine's Day... Mark faces the media... the Bird has a visitor... the suicide club grows... Stephen has an examination... Sybil deals with a salesman... Trudy emails her publisher... Nadia is made an offer she can't refuse... Ned waits in hospital... the man ponders his uncertain future... Rachel tampers with the scene of a crime... Morgana gets a job... Dylan stares at eternity... Samford has a date... Melodie recounts the end... and much much more!
Luis digs deeper into the financial morass... Gina continues her deadly errand... Rebecca breaks up with Max... Ralph charts his mental descent... Charles paints a picture... Jenn wallows in reality TV... Wingy's father gives his version of events... Claire steps outside... the hooker gets laid (again)... Pedersen tries to repair a fence... Edward marries a couple... Sandra goes shopping... the boys celebrate life... a blind woman commemorates Valentine's Day... Mark faces the media... the Bird has a visitor... the suicide club grows... Stephen has an examination... Sybil deals with a salesman... Trudy emails her publisher... Nadia is made an offer she can't refuse... Ned waits in hospital... the man ponders his uncertain future... Rachel tampers with the scene of a crime... Morgana gets a job... Dylan stares at eternity... Samford has a date... Melodie recounts the end... and much much more!
148 pages, Paperback
First published November 25, 2013
About the author
Matt Potter
52 books21 followersMatt Potter is a journalist, editor and broadcaster. He has reported for BBC Radio from Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, and co-presented Radio 1's award-winning global travel shows. As a journalist, his nose for the unusual has seen his writing appear in places as diverse as the Daily Telegraph, Golf Monthly, Esquire, Sunday Telegraph, Jack, Maxim, the Irish Examiner and Q, and his stories on cocaine trafficking in Latin America have been published in Russian, Spanish and English. As a journalist in Belgrade, he broke the story of the NATO 'spy' giving away secrets to Serb forces on the web. He speaks a handful of languages but attempts to speak at least twenty more. Matt is 39 and lives in London.
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March 25, 2014
Part II of the 2014: A Year In Stories project. The first volume, January, had everything going for it: thirty-one introductions of (mostly) twelve-installment novellas. We all know how "easy" it is to make that first chapter shine, how to hook the reader, how to make them keep wanting to turn the page. But delivering on the follow-up--on chapter 2, so to speak--is a different matter. Most books, especially most serials, fail there: Part I is wonderful, Part II is... mwah.
Not the case here.
Which is amazing, but not nearly as much as seeing how the authors handled this challenge, and in so very varied ways. Some used a (radical) change of pace; some introduced new characters; some changed the scenery; some made the nightmare come true; some answered the questions planted in January but gave us answers we really didn't want to hear; some dangled a bit of hope ahead, a flash of color in the fishing lure--and we chewed it down without a second thought.
There's a brilliance in this collection that goes beyond the work of individual writers, beyond the sum of the parts. Maybe it's the magic of anticipation--the project, and the stories, go on throughout the year, after all. Maybe it's the way the very distinct voices were put together. Maybe it's the build-up of reading a different story daily, the fact that each story takes place on the day--sometimes, when prescience takes over, even the hour--we read it. Maybe it's something else entirely.
We'll have to wait and see. One thing I do wonder: will all these authors--myself included--be able to carry these magnificent story lines to a satisfactory conclusion in December? The promise made in January, furthered in this February volume, is a big one. Can we pull it off?
Not the case here.
Which is amazing, but not nearly as much as seeing how the authors handled this challenge, and in so very varied ways. Some used a (radical) change of pace; some introduced new characters; some changed the scenery; some made the nightmare come true; some answered the questions planted in January but gave us answers we really didn't want to hear; some dangled a bit of hope ahead, a flash of color in the fishing lure--and we chewed it down without a second thought.
There's a brilliance in this collection that goes beyond the work of individual writers, beyond the sum of the parts. Maybe it's the magic of anticipation--the project, and the stories, go on throughout the year, after all. Maybe it's the way the very distinct voices were put together. Maybe it's the build-up of reading a different story daily, the fact that each story takes place on the day--sometimes, when prescience takes over, even the hour--we read it. Maybe it's something else entirely.
We'll have to wait and see. One thing I do wonder: will all these authors--myself included--be able to carry these magnificent story lines to a satisfactory conclusion in December? The promise made in January, furthered in this February volume, is a big one. Can we pull it off?
May 9, 2014
The January issue courted me. By February I fell in love. All these authors with such diverse styles, and each tell a story in installments. What's not to love? Truth be told, I'm all the way to April and my 'favorites' have changed with each month. Some begin with a bang, them coast. Others sneak up and suck you in with a bang. But all are addictive. I'm not sure how all these writers wound up joining this project (or how in God's name, they've managed to excel like they have), but I'm thrilled to have discovered their work. Count me in until December!
March 3, 2014
A fine follow up to January. Twenty-eight writers continue their stories for 2014. I blog about individual stories at my blog http://www.stephenvramey.com/2014
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