I am becoming more and more excited about my short story collection. I got proofs last weekend and have been going through each story, finding way more typos and formatting errors than I like to admit. Soon, I hope, and I know I have been threatening this for a long time, I will be able to publish this collection.
One of the things that surprises me, though, is just how well thematically these stories are fitting together. In some sense, they have quite the range: A post zombie-apocalypse, a fairy tale, narrative poetry, gothic and cosmic horror, and even one piece being a sort of political commentary, and yet, as I have been reading through them, I am delighted to see that they’re all bound together by consistent imagery and themes which I hope will leave a sort of metatextual impression upon any reader.
I have at times spoken of The King in Yellow, even one of the stories in my collection takes its cues from it, but I have always felt a sort of disappointment in its conclusion. It is like Chambers starts to say something really interesting and then wanders off the topic, and—since I’ve been following the new recordings of Brandon Sanderson’s writing lectures, I feel I can use his terminology—I fear that Chambers doesn’t quite fulfill the initial promise of his book. I hope that I fulfill mine, though I wonder whether I actually reach a conclusion; do I answer the questions that I am asking? Maybe not, but it is sometimes important to ask the question if you want to find the answer.
Tale Told 
Wonderful ♥️
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