Over the last year, on the fourth of each month this page has announced a fresh piece of short fiction. As the year progressed, an increasing number of followers have opened the page to get yet another story. Last month, the story of Peter had dozens of views. If you haven't already read it, click here to get this cool story.
So this month there's yet another new piece of short fiction for the page to introduce, prosaically entitled Riding the Bus. It's the story of an aged out newspaper reporter who spends his days riding the bus, viewing again the settings of compelling human stories he'd written for the local paper. On this particular day he plays a shame game with a black hooded teenager and then watches a person get sucker punched. But I'm going to let you in on some writerly sleight of hand—the story is fictionally autobiographical. No, I've never been a newspaper reporter, but I did age out of a different people profession, one also filled with compelling human stories.
The process to get Riding the Bus is different than it's been for the last year. You'll need to send me an email (wilton@twiltondale.ca) and I'll send it out to you by return email. I'm also asking for feedback once you've read this amusing and somewhat sad piece—simple ratings of readability, believability, and emotional impact. When you do, you'll be helping me to hone my craft as a writer.
So before you go, send me that email. wilton@twiltondale.ca.
So this month there's yet another new piece of short fiction for the page to introduce, prosaically entitled Riding the Bus. It's the story of an aged out newspaper reporter who spends his days riding the bus, viewing again the settings of compelling human stories he'd written for the local paper. On this particular day he plays a shame game with a black hooded teenager and then watches a person get sucker punched. But I'm going to let you in on some writerly sleight of hand—the story is fictionally autobiographical. No, I've never been a newspaper reporter, but I did age out of a different people profession, one also filled with compelling human stories.
The process to get Riding the Bus is different than it's been for the last year. You'll need to send me an email (wilton@twiltondale.ca) and I'll send it out to you by return email. I'm also asking for feedback once you've read this amusing and somewhat sad piece—simple ratings of readability, believability, and emotional impact. When you do, you'll be helping me to hone my craft as a writer.
So before you go, send me that email. wilton@twiltondale.ca.
From the Fourth Comings archives
these are backstories to the fictional elements of my novel
An Incoming Tide.
Estelle meets Nikki
Leanne meets Gordon
July 2022 - The first portrait
Jackson's return from the coast *
Leanne, unnoticed
Jimmy's story *
Evildoers
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