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By E.L. Parfitt , author of Seascape, Shattered Roses and Temptation & Mozzarella. This month I took some time to be creative with a pile of old scribbles I had made in a spiral notebook. Here is the result.  Short story: Lies on the cliff It’s an uncertain coming of age: a catcher in the rye. There are lies breathing on the cliff surrounding the house. It’s maddening that, trying to work out what’s the point of a lot of things. A conscious faltering. Control. End. The precipice… I can’t imagine how… slowly it becomes the tale gone wrong. God knows we all sprint off the edge in the end; dependant on twilight feelings of anger. The doctors did not know what to expect. Each time they considered how it came to be I wanted to ask, ‘Why bother?’ I left the room for a cigarette break. I know that surprises you because I don’t smoke. I wanted to leave. To breathe in the peaceful alchemy of being absent. Art came, was born, died.  “If you love someone,...

I am happy to announce the forthcoming publication of a book inspired by my storytelling research. The title Seascape comes from a play on the words ‘sea’ and ‘landscape’. Seascape is the title of one of the stories in the book. I had the idea for it walking the coast line of Cornwall. In particular along the areas connected to Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth. Those familiar with these areas will get a lot of the references to Cornish myths and landscape underlying the story. An old monolithic stone arch at Gyllyndune Gardens (Parfitt, 2012)   Why write a book inspired by research? I had intended the writing to become part of my doctoral thesis. Yet before you think how boring (too late I suppose), the writing did not fit the academic work so I dropped that idea early on. Without using the writing as part of the research process which I did not wish to do at that point I created a book of stories instead. The stories I finally selected are interspersed with quotes from...

The plot: A woman asks a raven to fetch a piece of her lover’s heart. Last month I republished my ebook Temptation & Mozzarella . This month I would like to share a link to a PDF file of the story Raven’s Heart . This is a story I created but did not know where or how to showcase. It is an experimental digitalised fairy tale of a sort. A mixture of strange graphics to play with the boundaries of reader interaction and text/pictures. I used formatting available through Microsoft Word to edit the pictures I had drawn.  My inspiration for the piece is at the end of the document. If you enjoyed the story and would like to make a donation this can be made to my Paypal account. I would be happy to answer any questions.