My short story, Reflecting Queenie, has just been published at Creative Writing Ink. It's Snow White from the point of view of the mirror. (Not as dreadful as it sounds, honestly.)
As a reader, I've always loved books that bring a fresh perspective to a well-known story. Jane Eyre has never been the same for me since I came across The Wide Sargasso Sea. Looks like others appreciate this kind of novel too.
As a reader, I've always loved books that bring a fresh perspective to a well-known story. Jane Eyre has never been the same for me since I came across The Wide Sargasso Sea. Looks like others appreciate this kind of novel too.
I like the way the young one's a lady, the old is a woman. I think she used to be a crone when I first met her. My first taste of the potentially subversive nature of a shift of perspective was with Chaucer at A level. What a revelation!
The Pardoner's Tale as a parody of the sacrament of the Eucharist? Wow! I'm allowed to think about this stuff? To question it? To look at it from another angle? Form my own views? Thank you, Geoffrey. So there's life on earth after all.
The revisions of the Christian story are still my favourites. Pathetic, I know, but still feels deliciously wicked to be breaking what was once a taboo.
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