Monthly Archives: September 2022

Hello, fiction and reminiscence fans! This is my novella, which is only recently out-of-print and which therefore I am putting up here. I still have 3 copies paperback to sell, if you want you can DM me at my Twitter account @vicklbennett for instructions and cost. But this is my opportunity to make it available as a work of CNF (creative non-fiction, i.e., memoir) to a wider audience. I hope you will enjoy it, and will simultaneously consider of the adventures recorded within that I was only seventeen years old. With no further ado, here it is:

September 26th, 2022–Hello, Readers, Writers, Poets, and Meanderers! Finally, I’m able to share with you these stories from the days when I was first seriously pursuing a writing career. They are in some cases more extremely professional-seeming and complicated in ethos, structure, and compositional traits than ones I’ve written since, and are, I think, still very much worth reading. They show me as I was when I had first absorbed the so-called “rules” of writing good fiction (and we all know there really are none but just what happens to work). As a result, they may seem a little precious or pretentious to some, but to others will seem better than much more recent things. To quote briefly from my author’s bio found on this site, “[they] concentrate[] on giving pictures of different kinds of individuals in different walks of life, with all their foibles, prejudices, and suppositions about life intact. It is not a book which focuses much on providing the author’s own insights, ideas, or feelings, but upon showing these character types with all their thoughts, experiences, and interpretations of these experiences exposed.” That’s enough of a prelude, I think. I hope you will enjoy them! Victoria Leigh Bennett (shadowoperator)