Jun 20 2023 39 mins
"This one, as they always do, seemed different. Tall, funny, not looking for anything serious, I thought for fifty seven days that I’d met my match.
He ticked my boxes, tasteful city centre apartment, accomplished speaker of three languages, wife in the country (clichéd Georgian Rectory but that was probably more her choice). He enjoyed cooking.
Once I’d tutored him beyond the marital sex that he tried to foist on me, we seemed compatible. For a while.
Until he fell in love with me."
In this episode, Erin, Sharon, and special guest Ambika Thompson talk about using current events in short stories, when is it too soon, and how to use specific details to make them work.
Ambika Thompson is a writer, musician and parent. She has been published with Electric Literature’s Okey Panky, NPR Berlin, Fanzine, Missing Slate, and was in Crab Fats Magazine‘s “Best of” compilation (2017), as well as other places. She is one half of the cello riot grrrl band Razor Cunts, the fiction & managing editor of the literary journal Leopardskin & Limes, and she holds an MFA in creative writing from Guelph University.