Truth is a matter of the imagination.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Sons of Sorrow
The title of the collection, Sons of Sorrow, was inspired by my native town whose name stems from a passage in the Old Testament. In the story, Rachel, aware that she is dying at the birth of her second son, names the child Ben Oni, which in Hebrew means 'son of my mourning' or 'son of my sorrow'.
I believe, for the sons and daughters of Benoni, for those of us who grew up there, an echo of this story pervades all our lives. A resonance of melancholy and a very real sense of sorrow.
Detective Noir
The Détective Noir series is the result of an experiment in writing flash fiction in the style of popular genres: the western, the horror, and, of course, the detective story. When it comes to detective stories, I think of the 1930’s hardboiled, the stories read in pulp magazines like the Black Mask and Dime Detective. The hardboiled detective is more of an antihero, typified by Dashiell Hammitt’s Sam Spade or the Continental Op, or, later, Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, and countless others.
Project Flash
How do readers interpret my narrative. How close do my words come to creating an objective, singular picture in their minds? I asked a number of artists from a variety of backgrounds, of diverse styles, working with different mediums, to choose from my collection of flash fiction pieces and to interpret them as they wished.