Tuesdays
This is a new contribution to a collection of short fiction exploring a wider, at times speculative, view of illness and affliction. While topics in the thematically-linked series include references to health and medical issues, the stories also include moods, states of mind, and unreal illnesses. The goal of the series is to plant questions in readers' mind of what it means to be ill, and the way illness may afflict things beyond the concerns of the body.
"Tuesdays" comically ficitonalises the reletionship between regret, conscience, the obsessive rekindling of guilt.
Stories in this series are written using a creative matrix of four elements: 1) personal experience/autobiography; 2) imaginative elements of style, drawing on John Gardner's concept of fiction's "vivid and continuous dream"; 3) mindful pre-writing practice; and 4) inspirational academic research. In this case, Olife et al's paper "Masculinities and men’s emotions in and after intimate partner relationships" from Sociology of Health & Illness (vol. 45) was consulted in pre-writing for verification and inspirational material.
History
School affiliated with
- Lincoln School of Creative Arts (Research Outputs)
Publication Title
The Raleigh ReviewVolume
13Issue
2Pages/Article Number
pp. 71–78.Publisher
The Raleigh Review/RIG PoetryExternal DOI
ISSN
2169-3943Date Submitted
2023-03-31Date Accepted
2023-05-21Date of First Publication
2024-01-11Date of Final Publication
2024-01-11Open Access Status
- Not Open Access
