18 February 07 - 14:14Count The Dreams
Rachel Mildeyes bad been writing for a living since she could remember. A bit like sleeping...Her first novel “Love In The Sick Ward” had been a successful feminist pot-boiler. She never cared to read it, however, simply because she could not understand it any more. Her mind was too convoluted and twisted for a straightforward narration. A beginning, middle and end (in that order) were not at all what the shrink ordered. She was confident that she had something growing inside her head, something sharp and incisive, but which could only best come out bent and skewed.
Thus, after a series of gradually compounding fiction sequences under various outlandish pen-names, at the age of thirty seven, she embarked on what she considered in advance to be her tour de force and raison d’etre. Not that it was written in French. The working title was “The Miscreant And The Moonstream”. She tried out a number of her old pen-names, but none seemed to sit well on the title page. ... (more)
