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Welcome to Newsletter #260

A bunch of tales I wanted to share with you

A tale I read

Hawthorn by Zaffar Kunial

A tale I heard

Poet Tim Key on the writing process and struggling to finish or perfect his work:

"I love writing the poems for that exact reason, similarly with my stage shows. I honestly do spend time trying to make them feel like a thing that makes SOME KIND OF SENSE but I like it when it's seemingly all over the place. There IS a logic there somewhere but I have no idea what it is. I sometimes look at a moment and think 'yeah that weirdly seems to work' but I try not to overthink why it does and then I hope that it happens again. Writing anything narrative with a beginning, middle and an end does my head in. I prefer whacking it all together and crossing my fingers."

A tale I saw

Brian & Charles (the original short film) by David Earl and Chris Hayward

A tale I wrote

There’s a football player printed
four times the size of him
telling me to buy a razor.
The pixels of his skin look
like a patch of leather

we used to kick around in the garden.
Once, we took the flesh of a ball
off and pumped the sad sack
inside as far as it could go.
Watch your eyes in case it pops,

my dad said. We looked the other way
and kept pumping. The thin bag
grew to half of me and we punted it
into a tree. We couldn’t reach it,

so we grabbed a rake and watched it
pop until our eyes blinked us to today..

A tail I like

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